TAMPA, Fla. - Police said Angelica Rene Ayala punched a horse named Buddy early Sunday morning. According to an arrest report, police were trying to clear a crowd outside a club at the time of the incident.Ayala is facing a misdemeanor charge of striking a police animal.

It became so bad that attendants served large tubs of punch as bait, outside on the White House lawn. It worked, and the crowds gathered on the green for treats and conversation.

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer seemed to intentionally avoid uttering the "G-word" Thursday but spared no punches in blasting archrival Google Inc. The sold-out crowd went crazy when Battelle, a journalist and author of a popular tome on Google, made a similar parallel, comparing Microsoft's Zune to the iPod.

PORTSMOUTH — A crowd of 30 to 40 high school students watched while three teens punched and kicked a classmate unconscious, say police.

In Bihar's Bhagalpur district, a chain-snatcher became a victim of mob fury, with policemen just looking on. On Monday, a man — identified as Salim — was caught trying to snatch a woman's chain in the Nathnagar area of Bhagalpur. A mob soon gathered and beat up the man. His hands were tied behind his back as the crowd kicked and punched him i

Jonestown was the short-lived settlement made in northwestern Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California. Jonestown became lastingly and internationally notorious in 1978, when nearly its whole population died in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by their leader, Jim Jones. The name of the settlement thus became, also, a term for that incident. The site is now an abandoned ruin.Named after Jones, Jonestown was founded on his initiative in the mid-1970s, as an agricultural commune. It stood amidst jungle, about seven miles (11 km) southwesterly from Port Kaituma. Jonestown's population was about one thousand, once it was fully established and the bulk of Jones' followers had moved to it, but most of them lived there for under a year.In November of 1978, United States Congressman Leo Ryan, accompanied by reporters and a delegation of concerned relatives of Peoples Temple members, visited Jonestown to investigate allegations of abuses there. The visit ended in the murders of Ryan and four others by members of the Peoples Temple, shot at the Port Kaituma airstrip as they were about to fly out. That evening, November 18, Jones led his followers in their mass murder-suicide. Somewhat over nine hundred men, women and children perished, Jones among them.Jonestown was shortly abandoned by the collapsing remnant of the Peoples Temple. Afterward, it was at first tended by the Guyanese government, which allowed its re-occupation by Hmong refugees from Laos, for a few years in the early 1980s, but it has since been altogether deserted. It was looted but otherwise avoided by the local Guyanese, mostly destroyed by a fire in the mid-1980s, and its remains were left to decay and be reclaimed by the jungle.