FLAT ROCK — Resident Chad Smith, who had registered to run for mayor, withdrew his petition Friday, according to City Clerk Meaghan Armstrong.

Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents.

Pocket-dialing leads to an arrest in California, and in Connecticut, a man is robbed while using a portable toilet. Those and other odd crimes in this edition of the bizarre blotter.