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Cyber-bullying jeopardizes teen's safety

JONESBORO, AR- (WMC-TV) - A new form of cyber-bullying has put one Jonesboro teen's life in danger.

Ashley is 16. She started getting phone calls and text messages from men across the country after someone posted her number on the iPhone app, iFunny.

The message claimed she was 17 had "the most amazing C cup you'll ever see" and that she would send nude photos.

The girl has since changed her number after receiving a threat from one of the men. But the girl's mother is now trying to figure out who posted the note in the first place.

"She's depressed she wants to stay at home and not talk to anybody," said the teen's mother Becky who asked Action News 5 to not share the family's last name for privacy reasons. "Based on the post, the prankster used the 'notes app' [located] on most iphones. Then using that screen shot to post this to the iFunny app."

A look ahead: Woman overcomes rare birth defect

WYNNE, AR- (WMC-TV) - The perfect pregnancy, mom, and baby by all accounts, until mom's water broke.

That is when doctors discovered the baby had a rare birth defect.

Donna Palmer was told her daughter would not survive.

"She will not survive over an hour. Well an hour went by and she had. And then, she wouldn't make it through the night, and they wanted to prepare me for what to do next," she explained.

Action News 5 has proof that miracles do happen.

Twenty years later, it is a world exclusive and is only being shared with Ursula Madden.

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Woman is oldest living person born with rare birth defect

WYNNE, AR- (WMC-TV) - A Mid-South woman is in many ways the "girl next door" except she does not look like anyone you have ever seen before. Even more, she is not supposed to be alive.

Stephanie Turner lives in Wynne, Arkansas and we are asking that you look past her exterior into the hearts of a woman and her loving family, who are witnessing a modern-day miracle firsthand.

"There was a feeling something's not just normal here. That's when they rushed her straight from me. I looked at her dad and her dad just said, 'It's not good. She will not survive over an hour.' I didn't have any idea what to expect," said Stephanie's mother, Donna Palmer. "They just kept saying, 'Please be prepared.' Her mouth was swollen inside out."

"That was 20 years ago and 20 years ago people, babies didn't survive with what I have. It's like one in a million," added Stephanie.

Stephanie Turner is one in a million.

Detectives continue search for Daisy Taylor's killer

(WMC-TV) - No one has ever been charged in the murder of Daisy Taylor, a woman whose body was found in a ditch near Marion, Arkansas in November 2012.

Taylor's family, as well as Arkansas investigators, are asking for your help.

Daisy Taylor made her home in Raleigh.

Investigators say that on the morning she disappeared she had spoken on the phone with a relative about picking up a check.

Relatives say about an hour later, a Crittenden County road worker found her body in a ditch.

"To know that someone would actually do this to her and then in broad daylight and then just leave her," said her daughter, Trinetta Cole.

Trinetta Cole is Taylor's daughter. She is hoping someone will come forward with information about who killed her 56-year-old mother and why.

Investigators say someone shot Taylor multiple times and dumped her body in the ditch.

School memorial commemorates anniversary of WM3 murders

School memorial commemorates anniversary of WM3 murders

This May marks the 20th anniversary of the murders of 8-year-old Cub Scouts Michael Moore, Chris Byers and Steve Branch in West Memphis.

A fund has been set up to honor the boys by making upgrades and improvements to their memorial at their former school, Weaver Elementary in West Memphis.

The memorial is called "The Weaver Reading Grove." It was constructed in 1994 on the playground of Weaver Elementary. It consists of a gazebo, benches and a memorial stone honoring the boys.

Sheila Grissom, principal of Weaver Elementary, has set up a fund to pay for landscaping around the gazebo. Plans are under way to build a flower bed, which will hold 20 yellow rose bushes to mark the 20th anniversary of their deaths.

Two highway workers killed in crash on I-55

MARION, AR- (WMC-TV) - The investigation continues into why a pickup truck swerved into a construction zone killing two highway workers.

The accident happened around 10:15 p.m. along I-55 in Marion, Arkansas.

Arkansas State Police say two people in the truck that caused the crash were taken to The MED.

Two highway workers died on the scene.

Marshall Turner, 55, of Memphis and James Rains of Marion were killed while paving a portion of I-55.

Grover Flournoy was not Turner's biological son, but told Action News 5 he might as well have been.

"You know, he pretty much taught me everything I know," he said.

Flournoy said the family knew highway work was dangerous, but Turner had never been hurt in more than 30 years on the job.

"It's a chance you take man. We all do, but that right there was uncalled for," said Flournoy.