A Lompoc mother accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter after a weeks-long, multi-state search is expected back in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing. Ashlee Buzzard is charged with ...

A makeshift memorial sits in front of the Vandenberg Village home where Ashlee Buzzard lives. She is facing murder charges in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee. Credit: Janene ...

Ashlee Buzzard pleads 'NOT GUILTY' to daughter's murder Ashlee Buzzard, mother of 9-year-old murder victim Melodee Buzzard, has pleaded not guilty to her murder after evidence was discovered linking ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. -- Ashlee Buzzard has been charged with murder with special allegations in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter Melodee Buzzard, according to court documents. The ...

Ashlee Buzzard pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Friday in the shooting death of her 9-year-old daughter, whose body was found earlier this month in a remote part of Utah. Stream Los Angeles News ...

Cries of anger and wailing erupted from a California courtroom Friday as deranged mom Ashlee Buzzard pleaded not guilty to killing her own daughter and leaving the girl’s body to rot in another state.

The mother of a 9-year-old Lompoc Valley girl reportedly pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of her daughter Friday morning. The charges against her carried two enhancements for using a ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) - Ashlee Buzzard was arraigned at Department 9 of Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria today. Buzzard was accused of shooting her 9-year-old daughter Melodee ...

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Ashlee Buzzard pleaded not guilty after being arraigned on a first-degree murder charge days after the body of her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee, was found more than two months after she went missing.

One teenager was dead, and four people were injured after a shooting broke out in Lancaster on Christmas Day, law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles Thursday. It happened in a residential ...