A rental car carrying a missing 9-year-old Santa Barbara County girl likely had its license plates swapped to avoid detection during a road trip to the Midwest and back to California, investigators ...

New details have emerged in the ongoing search for Melodee Buzzard, a missing 9-year-old Lompoc girl who authorities now say was seen as recently as Oct. 7 and may have been driven to Nebraska by her ...

Vandenberg Village woman Ashlee Buzzard, left, appears in court Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, with her attorney, public defender Adrian Galvan. KEYT.com photo The mother of a 9-year-old Lompoc Valley girl ...

Members of the FBI retrieve equipment to help in the search for Melodee Buzzard, 9, at her Mars Avenue home in Vandenberg Village on Thursday. Credit: Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo Law enforcement ...

Video surveillance showed that missing Lompoc girl Melodee Buzzard was last seen near the Colorado-Utah border on Oct. 9, the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Melodee has been ...

Melodee Buzzard, the missing 9-year-old girl from Lompoc, was found shot to death in rural Utah in what the Santa Barbara County sheriff called a “ruthless act” that ultimately led to the arrest of ...

Adam Freed’s childhood home was destroyed in the Palisades Fire, just one of thousands devoured by wind-fueled flames in January. After the nightmare of losing just about everything came the reality ...