The mother of a missing 9-year-old California girl described as "at-risk" appeared briefly in court Wednesday on a felony false-imprisonment charge unrelated to her daughter’s disappearance.

Ashlee Buzzard appeared in a Santa Maria courtroom for a motion to quash and traverse a search warrant related to the murder case against her.

(Gray News) - The mother of Melodee Buzzard, whose disappearance sparked a two-month search, was arraigned on a murder charge Friday in connection with the 9-year-old’s death. Ashlee Buzzard, 40, was ...

The body of a 9-year-old Lompoc girl who has been missing since October was found earlier this month in a remote part of Utah with gunshot wounds to the head, authorities said while naming her mother ...