ANNAPOLIS – The House approved a slate of bills Thursday designed to curb teen driving problems, including restricting the type of passengers allowed in a teens’ car for five months and banning phoning while driving until age 18

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s marquee ballistic fingerprinting program, which has cost the state $2

ANNAPOLIS – It appears that Maryland judges will get up to a $30,000 raise spread over the next four years, after the House and Senate failed to agree on a lower amount by Wednesday’s deadline

ANNAPOLIS – Wandering into a room where other boys were watching a decapitation video gave her then-8-year-old son nightmares and post-traumatic stress disorder, a Hyattsville mother told lawmakers Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – A proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages will be allowed to die quietly in a House committee, with supporters vowing to continue the fight next year

ANNAPOLIS – Edgewood cabbie Derald Howard Guess, 37, was killed in December, murdered in what authorities say was part of a gang initiation rite

ANNAPOLIS – Two years ago DNA evidence collected from criminals helped investigators in 39 cases; today that number has climbed to 224, the lab director for the State Police Forensic Sciences Division said

ANNAPOLIS – Baltimore Police Agent Gene Cassidy has never seen his two children — he hasn’t seen anything since he was shot twice in the face by a convicted felon who had obtained a gun illegally

ANNAPOLIS – A Montgomery lawmaker has crafted a compromise to witness intimidation legislation to satisfy some constitutional concerns, but says the bill still is only a placebo for the public and fails to address the problem

ANNAPOLIS – Hundreds of years ago, the feral ferret roamed the earth, wild and wily, it hunted its prey — mostly rats