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More than 100 firefighters responded to a raging inferno that ultimately killed 100,000 chickens at an egg farm in Bozrah, Conn., officials said. The blaze was brought under control late Saturday afternoon after a four-and-a-half-hour battle involving 16 fire departments, according to Fox 61. The Bozrah Town Fire Marshal is investigating the three-alarm chicken coop fire. The Salvation Army, which was on the scene providing food to firefighters, confirmed with officials that around 100,000 chickens died in the fire. The fire comes as egg prices are already soaring in part due to a large number of avian influenza deaths in...

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of...

MONTVILLE, Conn. (WTNH) - A substitute teacher at Montville High School is facing charges after allegedly holding a "fight club" in a classroom during school hours. Police arrested 23-year-old Ryan Fish of Bozrah on Thursday following an investigation that began in Dec., 2017. Officials say Fish, the substitute math teacher who was an employee of the Montville Board of Education, supervised the fights that occurred in Oct., 2017. The fights are detailed in an arrest warrant. The students were 16, 15, and 14-years-old, and they were unevenly matched in what were slap fights across the face and head. The warrant...