Mount Pleasant News

The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce is dialing up plenty of music, food and family fun for this year's Stars and Stripes Concert and Festival, set for July 1 at Harding Stadium and Hollywood City Center.

Butler County nursing homes Berkeley Square of Hamilton and Mount Pleasant Retirement Village of Monroe were ranked in the top 25 in the state for patient satisfaction, according to Ohio Department of Aging.

Mark P. Higgins Jr., 27, was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson after a jury convicted Higgins of two counts of raping an 8-year-old girl in April 2011.

The Jefferson County Fourth Street Health Center's sixth-annual gala fundraiser Sunday at St.

Mark P. Higgins Jr., 27, who was living outside Rayland, was found guilty Wednesday of two counts of raping an 8-year-old girl in April following a two-day trial before Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson.