If you thought Internet sensation Antoine Dodson was gone, think again. The young man performed his new song, “Chimney Intruder,” yesterday on The George Lopez Show. Dodson, who gained fame and hustled his way out of the Chicago projects with his interview-turned-Internet hit “Bedroom Intruder,” drops this video without the help of the Gregory Brothers.…

Politics do indeed make strange bedfellows. The Associated Press is reporting a September 2009 cable that says Mayor Desmond McKenzie of Kingston, Jamaica, told a U.S. Embassy officer that his administration collaborated for years with Christopher “Dudus” Coke to fight crime, particularly in the powerful slum leader’s stronghold of West Kingston, the home constituency of…

Samuel Sevian of Santa Clara, Calif., has become the United States’ youngest chess master ever. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the U.S. Chess Federation, the governing body of competitive chess, gave him a rating of 2,201 after the Dec. 11 match. A rating of 2,200 qualifies a player as a “national master.” Samuel…

Fresh from our “Why aren’t the practices of banks better regulated” file, a woman has sued Bank of America, claiming that the bank wrongfully foreclosed on her home and looted her house in the process. Mimi Ash returned to her home and found that the locks had been changed. When she gained access to the…

Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal is really throwing himself into the Boston community since signing with the Celtics this past summer. O’Neal conducted the Boston Pops on Monday, leading renditions of “Sleigh Ride,” the Jackson 5’s “Can You Feel It” and Queen’s “We Are the Champions.” The Boston Celtics center towered over the musicians during the…

The Associated Press is reporting that France urged its citizens to leave Ivory Coast on Wednesday after the U.N. chief warned that the former French colony in West Africa faces “a real risk” of return to civil war following the disputed presidential election. The U.N. and other world leaders recognize Alassane Ouattara as the winner…

Politico.com’s Jennifer Epstein is reporting that former Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) will not run for mayor of Chicago. A group of friends submitted the paperwork for him to be on the ballot, and he promised to make a decision by mid-December. Facing a Democratic field that includes former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel,…

The EEOC has filed a nationwide hiring-discrimination lawsuit against Kaplan Higher Education Corp., charging that the company engaged in a pattern or practice of unlawful discrimination by refusing to hire a class of black job applicants. Since at least 2008, Kaplan Higher Education has rejected job applicants based on their credit history. This practice has an…

The Boston Globe is reporting that the family of a woman who was given free Newport cigarettes as a child living in Boston housing projects has won a $152 million judgment against Lorillard, makers of Newport cigarettes. Evans first received free cigarettes at the age of 9 and was a regular smoker by the time…