Authorities say woman shoplifter in abandons her three-month-old baby after being caught stealing from a supermarket.

A police spokesman in the town of Offenbach just south of Frankfurt says, "When the security man told the woman to enter his office so he could check her identification, the perpetrator took off, leaving behind the baby and the pram."

It's sounds like the plot from the Shawshank Redemption, L.A. Police are searching for an inmate they believe escaped through a hole he dug in his cell wall.

Reuters reports the robbery suspect managed to cut an opening in the wall of his cell and escape through a 15-by-9-inch hole in just an hour.

The protective housing unit in Corcoran State Prison, about 50 miles south of Fresno, is considered the safest place for an inmate to reside within the California prison system.

Designed to protect famous convicts from possible attacks, it houses mass murderers like Charles Manson, and high-profile criminals like Sirhan Sirhan, one of the first inmates placed in the unit, where he passed the time playing chess and working for 13 cents an hour as an administrative clerk.

In late May, Jason Martin stumbled across a misplaced cell phone at the back of the restaurant he worked at. Upon scanning the phone book, he was surprised to see a list of names including, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George Clooney, Harrison Ford, and Bill Gates.

Martin was a bus boy at Brisa Atlantica, a Cuban jazz club/restaurant in Delray Beach. That night, singer Jimmy Buffett had visited the restaurant and lost his cell phone on the way out of the restaurant's back door.

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Winter Haven, Florida (AHN)- Bradley Neil Slosberg, 49, has been charged with forging applications in a ploy to receive department store credit cards.