1. Authorities say St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock was drunk and talking on his cell phone at the time of his fatal crash on Sunday. He also had marijuana in his vehicle. The team says the accident is a wake-up call to everyone about drinking and driving.

2. A firefight rages in Iraq captured by an Associate Press television crew embedded with the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division. The incident happened Wednesday night near a Baghdad suburb.

3. Queen Elizabeth II continues her royal tour of the United States, seeing Jamestown Virginia, strolling around what became America's first permanent English settlement. Next on the itinerary, a visit to the Kentucky Derby.

4. This Boeing 737 was a long way from a runway stuck at a busy road in India. It was headed to a flight training school when the driver got lost and abandoned the fuselage, the plane's remains becoming something of a local attraction.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. pitcher: n-count
In baseball, the pitcher is the person who throws the ball to the batter, who tries to hit it.

2. embed: verb
If an object embeds itself in a substance or thing, it becomes fixed there firmly and deeply.

3. fuselage: n-count
The fuselage is the main body of an aeroplane, missile, or rocket. It is usually cylindrical in shape.