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Author: Tiffany Tan

Tiffany Tan is VTDigger's Southern Vermont reporter. Before joining VTDigger, she covered cops and courts for the Bennington Banner from 2018 to 2021. Prior to that, Tiffany worked for the Rapid City Journal in South Dakota and spent more than 10 years working for newspapers and television stations in Manila, Singapore and Beijing.
 

Vermonters rally throughout the state as Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

By Shaun Robinson, Jenna Peterson, Tiffany Tan, Kevin O'Connor, Lia Chien, Alan J. Keays and Paul Heintz

Jun 24 2022June 24, 2022

Close to 1,000 Vermonters turned out at protests Friday afternoon and evening in Bennington, Brattleboro, Burlington, Montpelier and Rutland — denouncing the decision and calling for Vermont to further protect abortion rights.


New felony charges filed in assault case involving Bennington girl

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 24 2022June 24, 2022

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The girl’s mother and a teenage companion are accused of being accessories in a violent altercation last month.


Bennington teenager charged with attempted murder was shot by a neighbor

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 22 2022June 22, 2022

Marcus Lorensen, 18, is accused of trying to stab his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis Burnell Sr., with a knife during an argument that started at their home on Saturday night.


Woman who shot her family’s dog convicted of felony

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 20 2022June 20, 2022

A Bennington Superior Court judge said the woman intentionally and maliciously tortured the dog by shooting it twice.


Opioid deaths dip for second month this year, but no one’s calling it a trend

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 17 2022June 17, 2022

The eight opioid deaths recorded in Vermont in March, which all involved fentanyl, were down from 12 in February and 23 in January, according to the latest state data — but state health officials cautioned it’s far too early to talk about a trend.


Bennington appoints members of town’s inaugural police advisory and review board

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 16 2022June 16, 2022

Bennington Monument

Seven local residents were named to the board, even as the town considered legislative options to expand the citizen group’s oversight of the Bennington Police Department.


Court orders Bennington teen released from adult jail

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 13 2022June 13, 2022

Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility

Superior Court Judge Cortland Corsones said the prosecution hasn’t proven “by clear and convincing evidence” that the teenager’s release poses a threat of violence to others and to herself.


Attorney asks that teenage girl be released from adult jail, where she is awaiting placement at juvenile facility

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 10 2022June 10, 2022

Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility

The girl’s public defender said she’d been incited by her mother to participate in the alleged assault and otherwise didn’t pose a threat of violence to others.


4 juveniles have been held at Vermont’s adult jails since Woodside closed in 2020

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 9 2022June 9, 2022

The state has placed juveniles in jails when a New Hampshire facility that contracts with the Department for Children and Families had no room. But reform advocates say adult detention facilities have proven harmful to children and should be removed as an option for them.


Bennington man held without bail in ex-girlfriend’s killing

By Tiffany Tan

Jun 3 2022June 3, 2022

The remains of Jessica Hildenbrandt, 43, were discovered near an abandoned gravel pit in Searsburg in September 2019 and identified as those of the New York woman a year later. Deven Moffitt pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder on Friday.


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