NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York police on Wednesday said they arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver following a weekend accident that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple whose baby was later delivered by C-section but then died.

“The suspect has been apprehended,” said New York Police Detective Kelly Ort.

Feb 18 (Reuters) – A lawyer for a man fired from his job
after being accused of slapping a baby and using a racial slur
on an airplane denied on Monday he was a racist and said she was
getting hate mail over the assault case.

Joe Rickey Hundley of Hayden, Idaho plans to plead not
guilty to federal assault charges stemming from the Feb. 8
incident in which he is accused of striking in the face a
19-month-old boy on board a Delta Air Lines flight, said his
lawyer Marcia Shein.

NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) – The myriad designs parading on
the runways of New York Fashion Week converged on one standout
style-savvy look for fall and winter 2013: the black jacket.

Ubiquitous in the latest collections, the jacket appeared
with a boxy silhouette, swingy lines or oversized shoulders, but
the black was non-negotiable. It was by far the dominant color
among the hundreds of fall and winter women’s collections
unveiled by designers at the semi-annual extravaganza.

NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) – The myriad designs parading on
the runways of New York Fashion Week converged on one standout
style-savvy look for fall and winter 2013: the black jacket.

Ubiquitous in the latest collections, the jacket appeared
sporting a boxy silhouette, swinging lines or oversized
shoulders, but the black was non-negotiable. It was by far the
dominant color among the hundreds of the fall and winter women’s
collections unveiled by designers at the semi-annual
extravaganza.

NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Fur stole the show at Carolina
Herrera’s fashion show on Monday – fur in eye-catching hues and
unusual places.

Herrera dyed fur a rich green and deep violet in her fall
and winter 2013 collection, one of hundreds on display at New
York Fashion Week, which runs through Thursday.

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Designers took fashion traveling
through time in New York on Saturday, displaying looks
showcasing the past and future to crowds undeterred by deep snow
that covered the city.

Ruffian, Lacoste and Porsche Design were three of the lines
showing their fall and winter 2013 collections at New York
Fashion Week, which brings more than 200,000 models, design
experts and journalists to the city for the semi-annual
extravaganza.

NEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Tailored clothes for fall and
winter are turning away from the traditional as designers at New
York’s Fashion Week add twists and tucks to give time-honored
looks an up-to-date image.

Sleek wool topcoats and jackets took center stage at
Friday’s show by Yigal Azrouel, among the designers showing
their latest collections during the city’s semi-annual fashion
extravaganza.

NEW YORK, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Television’s Katie Couric will
interview Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o, the linebacker
entangled in a girlfriend hoax, and his parents on her daytime
talk show, “Katie,” ABC News said on Sunday.

The interview will be his first on camera since news broke
last week that his story about his girlfriend’s cancer death -
and her existence altogether – was exposed as a fraud.

NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) – The New York City family, whose
two young children were murdered allegedly by their nanny, has
returned home from a cross-country road trip that helped them to
“live in the present,” they said in a Facebook posting on
Friday.

The 11-day journey was part of an effort to heal, following
the deaths of Leo Krim, 1, and Lulu Krim, 6, who were fatally
stabbed on Oct. 25 in their Manhattan apartment, the family said
on Facebook.

By Ellen Wulfhorst

(Reuters) – Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett filed a lawsuit on Wednesday demanding that sanctions imposed on Penn State University over the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal be thrown out, saying they threatened to devastate the state’s economy.

Corbett called the sanctions imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which include an unprecedented $60 million fine, “overreaching and unlawful.”