NEW YORK (Reuters) – A quarter million New Yorkers may have to evacuate from a hurricane that threatens New York institutions from Wall Street to Coney Island’s famed “Cyclone” roller coaster.

Homebound elderly and hospital patients in low-lying areas began forced evacuations on Friday and a mass transit system that moves 8.5 million people a day prepared for a total shutdown due to Hurricane Irene, making its way up the U.S. East Coast.

NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters) – A quarter million New Yorkers
may have to evacuate from a hurricane that threatens New York
institutions from Wall Street to Coney Island’s famed “Cyclone”
roller coaster.

Homebound elderly and hospital patients in low-lying areas
began forced evacuations on Friday and a mass transit system
that moves 8.5 million people a day prepared for a total
shutdown due to Hurricane Irene, making its way up the U.S.
East Coast.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City prepared to evacuate coastal areas and rescue stranded New Yorkers with a fleet of police boats in case the city gets socked by Hurricane Irene this weekend.

“We hope for the best but we prepare for the worst and that’s why I think this city is ready for this weekend,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters on Thursday while outlining the city’s hurricane preparations.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday, leaving him free to return to France and rebuild a shattered career.

The decision to drop the case ended three months of sordid headlines on both sides of the Atlantic about a hotel maid who accused the International Monetary Fund director of forcing her to perform oral sex.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday after prosecutors lost faith in the credibility of his accuser.

But the formal end of the case awaited the outcome of a last-ditch emergency appeal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York judge was expected to drop criminal sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday and free him to return to France after prosecutors asked for the case to be dismissed

due to the faulty credibility of his accuser.

The man once seen as the leading contender to be the next president of France will get his passport back and walk away free of criminal liability if New York State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus accepts the prosecutors’ request for dismissal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday, a stunning reversal that could revive the political future of a man many had seen as the next president of France.

Prosecutors gave up hope they could convict Strauss-Kahn after losing confidence in their star witness, Nafissatou Diallo, 32, a hotel maid from Guinea who alleged that Strauss-Kahn emerged naked from the bathroom of his luxury suite on May 14 and forced her to perform oral sex.

NEW YORK, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Prosecutors on Monday
appeared set to drop sexual assault charges against former IMF
director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a stunning reversal in the
case against a man who many had seen as the next president of
France.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office will recommend to
a judge that the case be dismissed after they lost faith in the
accuser, a 32-year-old hotel maid from Guinea, due to lies she
told about her past, New York news media reported.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Prosecutors on Monday appeared set to drop sexual assault charges against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a stunning reversal in the case against a man who many had seen as the next president of France.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office will recommend to a judge that the case be dismissed after they lost faith in the accuser, a 32-year-old hotel maid from Guinea, due to lies she told about her past, New York news media reported.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – First she was portrayed as a model of virtue who was violated by a rich and powerful man.

Then she was presented as a liar, a schemer associated with criminals in the New York underworld, who may have taken down the next president of France for her own financial gain.