R. Kelly Case Twist / 13 Year Old Struck By Lightning / Willie Nelson

An 18-year-old security guard at Lollapalooza was charged with making terrorist threats.

Why did she do it?

To get out of work early.

Lollapalooza Security Guard Faked Mass Shooting Threats To Leave Work Early

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• A 13-year-old was struck by lightning at Garfield Park Conservatory when powerful storms swept through the city Wednesday. (NBC5)
• New details have emerged about star charter school CEO Tim King's sudden resignation from Urban Prep Academies. Sarah Karp reports a Chicago Public Schools investigation determined "the administrator engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old" student. (WBEZ)
• R. Kelly's criminal troubles took a strange twist. The former Hip-Hop star turned federal inmate's attorneys filed a motion claiming a former lead prosecutor used a burner email address and fake name to communicate with a potential witness, journalist Jim DeRogatis. (CBS2)
• "You're relatively safe on the CTA," the transit agency president Dorval Carter said in a Chicago Tonight interview. (WTTW)
• Willie Nelson is set to perform at Windy City Smokeout. (FOX32)

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About me: Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."

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