The Boston Herald reports:

For the third time in a little over a year, residents of a Peabody apartment complex were forced to flee as their flame-plagued complex caught fire again.

A three-alarm blaze broke out on the roof of a building at the Highlands at Dearborn yesterday after a lightning bolt struck.

Timothy Haroutunian works in Peabody and saw the fire on his way home:

... I was stuck in the traffic and when I looked over and saw the flames and the apartment burning, it looked awful.

One of my friends from work lived there and lost everything. Not only did she lose her apartment and all her possessions, she also lost her two cats who were trapped inside while she was at work. We are setting up a collection at work to help her. ...

Herald: One injured in Golden Banana shooting.

Earlier:
Teenager sought for fatal King Arthur's shooting.

The Globe reports that a tractor trailer hauling garbage overturned at the interchange of Rte. 1 north and I-95 in Peabody during the morning rush hour today, closing the ramp.

Garbage trucks had to be called in to haul off the stuff. What happens if one of them overturns?

Under the Golden Dome rains on Mitt Romney's Peabody sympathy. Seems that after the last time Peabody flooded (all of two years' ago), Romney vetoed a measure to spend $5.7 million for flood control in Peabody - money that would have meant an additional $20 million in federal aid for the work.

Blue Mass. Group has more.

But, hey, at least the flooding's good for a laugh

Honk reports from her home in Peabody

... Peabody is notorious for flooding but this is easily the worst I've ever seen and it's still fucking raining. Numerous businesses downtown are completely flooded and the damn water keeps rising. It's a little scary, to be honest. Our garage has over four feet of water in it and you can see things floating around in there. ...

She had to promise a friend that if the waters keep rising and she has to go up to the roof, she won't misspell "HELP."