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• Banita Jacks is receiving anti-psychotic drug treatments at St. Elizabeth’s, but it’s far from clear whether she’s competent to stand trial for the murders of her four daughters. The Post’s story contains this haunting paragraph: “Once she corrected a hospital facilitator who said she faced 10 criminal counts; actually, it was 12, she told him. Another time, the report says, she smiled while listening to a hospital staff member read charging documents that describe the decomposition of the girls’ bodies.”
• The AP reports that Queen Anne’s County prosecutors have declined to file criminal charges against the 19-year-old woman involved in the Bay Bridge crash that killed a tractor trailer driver in August.
• Authorities seized about 500 chickens from two farms in Loudoun County as part of a cockfighting investigation.
• The Mount Vernon Square Neighborhood Association voted to support a single alcohol sales ban exemption for Good Libations at 1201 5th St NW. The Triangle is not pleased.
• South Silver Spring is still trying to get rid of all the hookers and drugs at a couple of local motels. The Penguin reports.