Associated Press Banita Jacks, the D.C. woman who was convicted of murdering her four daughters in one of the most gruesome cases in this city’s history, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison, the Washington Post is reporting.In sentencing her yesterday, [D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick] Weisberg, who has been in the bench for more than 30 years, said the case occupied his mind in the past two years like no other in…

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcwashington.com/video. You have to sit through an intro from NBC4’s Pat Collins to get to it, but this recently released video of D.C. police interviewing Banita Jacks shortly after her arrest truly is chilling, though not for the reasons we expected. Jacks definitely appears to be weak and tired (she had by all accounts been starving herself, too) but what we found most startling was how lucid she actually seems….

Breaking news from the Washington Post:A D.C. Superior Court judge on Wednesday found Banita Jacks guilty of killing her four daughters in a case that shook the region for its cruelty. Judge Frederick H. Weisberg convicted Jacks on four counts of felony murder in the girls’ deaths. Weisberg also found Jacks guilty of first-degree premeditated murder in the deaths of the three youngest girls, but acquitted her on the premeditated murder of her oldest daughter….

The bench trial in the case of Banita Jacks, who is accused of killing her four young daughters in a Southeast rowhouse over a year and a half ago, begins tomorrow. Jacks waived her right to a jury trial, although it is assumed that she probably have had a better chance at an acquittal in front of twelve jurors. Judge Frederick H. Weisberg — who some may remember as a vital part of a story…

Photo by Mark Segraves/courtesy WTOP It’s been a little over a year since the decomposed bodies of Banita Jacks’s four daughters were discovered inside their Southeast D.C. home. The house is still for sale, and WTOP’s Mark Segraves took a look inside, with just incredibly disturbing results. There is no smell that would indicate the home’s history. There are some holes in the drywall and the plumbing is not working. Other than that, it…

Via the Post, Banita Jacks pleaded not guilty this morning to first-degree murder charges in the deaths of her four daughters. A trial date has been set for Dec. 1, and her attorneys have 15 days to inform Judge Frederick Weisberg if they intend to go forward with an insanity defense. Jacks has also been charged with failing to provide the girls with adequate nutrition and medical attention. The decomposed bodies of the four girls,…

D.C. Wire reported late yesterday that the D.C. Public Charter School Board has passed new attendance and truancy policies in the wake of the killings of the daughters of Banita Jacks. The decomposing bodies of the four girls were found dead in their Southeast home after having been absent from school for months. Charter schools will now be required to report attendance statistics on a quarterly basis, and will mark attendance at a threshold rate…

There’s been a lot more attention placed on the goings on at D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency since the gruesome discovery of the murdered daughters of Banita Jacks, and rightly so. But two different stories in today’s edition of the Examiner paint nearly opposite portraits of what might be going wrong inside the agency. First is Bill Myers’ story, about how the principal of Latin American Montessori Bilingual School called the city’s abuse hot…

Mayor Adrian Fenty announced this morning that Banita Jacks’ four murdered daughters have been positively identified through a mix of dental records and DNA analysis. The victims can now be confirmed to be Brittany Jacks, Tatiana Jacks, N’Kiah Fogle and Aja Fogle, all sisters between the ages of 5 and 16. All four decomposed bodies were discovered Jan. 9 in their home on the 4200 block of Sixth Street SE. In a press release earlier…