MBTA Transit Police say that when passengers on the Orange Line platform at Malden complained about somebody smoking today, an officer started investigating and found a woman puffing away in the station busway. And when he started to question her discovered she was wanted in Cambridge for outstanding warrants for malicious destruction of property and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, they tweet.

Might be good to avoid towns with names beginning with M today:

Channel 4 reports flames shot 20 to 30 feet in the air when manholes exploded on Main Street in Medford around 10:30 a.m. and that several thousand people are now without power.

William Fleurant tweets traffic is, as you might expect, a mess there (where 38, 16 and I-93 come together).

MBTA Police report power went out at the Malden Orange Line station, trapping one person in an elevator.

Dave Bonner tweets another donut stand at the Oak Grove T stop has closed:

... sign said business was too slow. ...

A “Voter Choice” initiative petition turned in to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office on Wednesday would give Massachusetts voters a chance to change to a voting system that lets voters rank their choices instead of voting for only one candidate. The change would apply to key races, including for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary and treasurer, among others, starting after January 2012.

Channel 4 reports on the Monday-evening incident.

Nearly $200,000 in statewide grants help families cope with the economic crisis

Jedi's mother told him that two or three people were shot yesterday near her home on Newland Street in Malden, but he can't find any news reports of the event. Police were there investigating for at least nine hours. Anyone here know more?

The Herald reports Malden cops have been ordered to write at least one ticket per shift to raise money.

In thousands of households in Revere, Everett, Malden, Medford and Melrose, alarm clocks lost their minds and started blinking "12:00," Channel 4 reports.

Lyetteann snapped the afternoon rainbow over South Boston and the Waterfront.

Jennifer Forman Orth also photographed it. Paul Locke captured it at Oak Grove.