A six-wheeler truck fatally struck a 68-year-old woman as she crossed a Midtown street Monday night, officials and witnesses said. The woman had just eaten at a nearby McDonald’s and was walking across E. 42nd St. near Fifth Ave. when the truck hit her just before 8:10 p.m., witnesses and police sources said.

“It was terrible. The sound was like, ‘Boom!’ ” said Jose Tavares 30, a security guard and witness. “She crossed in the middle of the street. She went down in the rear wheels.” The woman, whose name has not been released, died at the scene, an FDNY spokesman said. The truck, which belongs to Hugh O’Kane Electrical Co., was hauling two large spools of cable, and the driver stayed at the accident site. Police preliminarily don’t expect to charge him with any criminal activity, sources said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A schizophrenic subway rider who once claimed to have shoved a straphanger into the path of a train actually did it Monday — sending a 49-year-old woman tumbling to her death in Times Square, according to police. Cops took Melanie Liverpool-Turner, 30, of St. Albans, Queens, into custody moments after the gruesome tragedy on the 1 train platform. She was charged Monday night with second-degree murder for pushing Connie Watton of Queens in front of the train as it barreled into the 42nd St. station at 1:20 p.m, authorities said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

WASHINGTON — The civil war for the soul of the Republican Party is only going to grow more bitter if Donald Trump loses to Hillary Clinton.

The Tea Party-establishment battle has wreaked havoc on the party for a half-decade. And the explosion of Trumpism — nationalist, populist, at times racist — further scatters any chances of party unification following the most toxic presidential campaign in modern history. “It’s not going away, it’s going to have major implications, and it is a giant cry in the dark,” said Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), a hardline conservative who doesn’t like Trump but has promised to back the nominee.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A gunman fatally shot a Georgia deputy and critically wounded another after threatening to kill his neighbors on Sunday, authorities said.

Suspected shooter Ralph Stanley Elrod opened fire and struck two Peach County deputies walking toward his home around 5:30 p.m. near Byron, according to Peach County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies Patrick Sondron, 41, and Daryl Smallwood were just 15 yards from their cruiser, revealed Georgia Bureau of Investigations Special Agent J.T. Ricketson at a press conference. “They both went down right there,” Ricketson said, describing the gun attack.(nydailynews.com)…[+]