ROCHESTER Frisbie Memorial Hospital will continue to provide ambulance and emergency medical services for the city, thanks to a two-year deal the city has struck with the hospital’s new for-profit parent company.
The deal, which gives the city one-year renewals options for each of the following five years, will cost Rochester $692,247 a year, or roughly $67,000 a month. While that’s a significant increase over what Rochester paid the formerly nonprofit Frisbie, city officials say the deal is advantageous for Rochester because it’s cheaper than the estimated $2 million it would’ve cost the city to bring EMS in house.
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Deputy Attorney General Jane E. Young announces that New Hampshire has joined 47 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories in a $573 million settlement with McKinsey & Company, resolving investigations into the company’s role in working for opioid companies, helping those companies promote their opioids, and profiting from the opioid epidemic.
New Hampshire will receive $3,332,762 over five years from the multistate settlement. Under a state law enacted last year, the proceeds from this settlement will be deposited into a fund that will be used to abate problems caused by opioids. This is the first multi-state opioid settlement to result in substantial payment to the states to address the epidemic.
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A New Hampshire man is facing criminal and civil rights charges after he allegedly shouted racial slurs at a Black family and then threatened to douse one of the victims with gasoline and burn him.
John Doran, 61, of Seabrook, was indicted this month by a Rockingham County grand jury for criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, criminal threatening and simple assault, according to Seacoastonline. He also faces a civil penalty for violating the Civil Rights Act, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General s Office.
The charges stem from an incident on July 29, 2020, where Doran allegedly shouted racial slurs at a Black family from Springfield, Massachusetts, at a gas station at routes 1A and 286 in Seabrook. When the victim responded, authorities said Doran again shouted racial slurs while threatening to douse him with gasoline and burn him.
A Portsmouth business owner is asking for donations after receiving a warning notice from the New Hampshire Attorney General s Office on January 13.
Joanna Chipi, who owns Zen Den Yoga in Portsmouth, was issued a warning by the state s attorney general after allegedly failing to quarantine after she returned from the deadly protest at the U.S Capitol on January 6, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Seacoast Current.
According to the letter, Chipi was allegedly teaching classes at her Portsmouth studio two days after returning from Washington, D.C., defying required quarantine for people who travel out of state, the warning said.