Greencastle Elementary School Teacher Arrested

Silver Spring, MD -

Montgomery County Police have arrested Susan Lee Burke of the 9300 block of Decatur St. in Laurel, MD for allegedly abusing children in her first grade class. Court documents reveal that a warrant was issued on February 3rd for nine counts of assault in the second degree. The documents also reveal that the alleged assaults took place during the period from December 1st to December 31st of last year.

As always, we want our readers to be able to review the unabridged information. Unlike most other news sources, we post the raw press release from Montgomery County Police. The court information is in the public record on the Maryland Judiciary System website.

Susan Lee Burke

Suburban Hospital Employee Killed

*This is an UPDATE to a story posted earlier*

Bethesda, MD (Capital Region Pulse) -

Police received a call at approximately 10:29am this morning regarding an incident at Suburban Hospital in Maryland. Upon further investigation it was learned that a 40-year old male employee of the hospital had been assaulted and sustained "upper body trauma." Due to the nature of the incident, police and hospital officials locked down Suburban Hospital until around 2:30pm this afternoon.

At this time, police are not releasing the name of the victim. Officials insisted that all patients and staff were safe during the lockdown. The Capital Region Pulse will have more on this story as it continues to develop.