Undercover officers were standing in as prostitutes on Kensington Avenue yesterday afternoon and Wednesday, cracking down on prostitution. Some lucky schmuck bought the winning Powerball ticket last week at the Turkey Hill Minit Mart in Willow Street, PA, just south of Lancaster. This Phillyist can sadly report that it wasn't him. But whoever it was will be revealed at 10 this morning. A group of residents in Yorktown feel their community is being threatened because......

The high-speed car chase and wreck on Roosevelt Boulevard that led to the death of a 17-year-old boy appears to have come out of a dispute over a 14-month-old baby—a baby who died early yesterday morning from injuries sustained in the crash. Philadelphia photographer, founder of phillyskyline.com, and friend of Phillyist Brad Maule has sued The Colbert Report, and the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer for using his photographs without permission. He is seeking......

Phillyist's favorite news item this morning is this one: twin 25-year-old internet hardcore gay porn stars Keyontyli and Taleon Goffney (apparently known as Keyon and Teyon in the biz), of New Jersey, have been arrested for a series of robberies in Philadelphia and New Jersey wherein they gained entry to businesses by cutting holes in the roofs using a handsaw and ax. In Nether Providence, they broke into Wawas, and Chief Richard Slifer of......

- A car chase ended in violence yesterday: a police officer was injured, and the suspect killed. - Germantown's Anthony Reid, who shot an officer following a car chase last year, has received the maximum sentence for his crime. - Philly-based Comcast has found its installers in the news again. The complaint this time? One of their installers was a little lovestruck by a customer. At least he didn't try to crash on her......

The Schuylkill Expressway was reopened before noon, but for at least an hour this morning the police closed down the westbound lanes while they searched the area for a suspect who had fled on foot from an accident site that was the end result of a car chase. The only description we've got is "a black male wearing a tan shirt with a black shirt beneath," but the guy is wanted for a firearms violation,......