His mother, Kenyarda Dukes, of Marietta, said she was at home alone with her son James on Tuesday when she began to feel the baby coming.

An 11-year-old Georgia boy is drawing praise after helping to deliver his baby brother while getting advice from a 911 dispatcher.

His mother, Kenyarda Dukes, of Marietta, said she was at home alone with her son James on Tuesday when she began to feel the baby coming, according to WSB-TV.

Kenyarda Dukes began screaming, she said, and her son ran into the room. Her son asked, "'Mom, are you OK?"

She said she answered back, "Nooo!"

She told CBS46.com that she collapsed on the floor because she couldn't reach the bed.

With the father at work, it was up to James to call 911 and get step-by-step instructions on how to handle the baby.

"My mom just had a baby at the house and she needs somebody to come," the boy told the dispatcher, according to recordings obtained by WSB.

The dispatcher got on the phone with the mother, then directed James to "gently wipe off the baby's mouth and nose, wrap him in a clean, dry towel."

The boy explained later he just followed instructions: "I called 911. They told me what to do."

His brother, Royal Dukes, arrived weighing 6 pounds 9 ounces.

The family doctor, Eric Brown, said the baby is doing "fantastic." Brown added that he's never heard before of an 11-year-old delivering a baby.

The boy's family afterward had strong praise for James' calmness.

"My son was brave. He didn't shake. He didn't budge. I was like, 'Oh my God! Somebody help me.' He did a wonderful job and I'm proud of him," his mom told CBS46.

The Big E fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts drew thousands of visitors from across the country on Saturday as New England's fair celebrated the Green Mountain State on Vermont Day.

WEST SPRINGFIELD — The combination of perfect weather and first class concerts attracted visitors from all over New England Saturday.

Early morning visitors packed the West Springfield Fire Station No. 4 for breakfast sandwiches and traditional breakfast plates while waiting for the Midway and attractions to open.

Fairgoers lined the front walkways of the state buildings in anticipation of sampling the savory items from each state. Visitors celebrated Vermont Day with music from the Vermont-based Pete's Posse and a variety of tasty maple products.

As the temperature rose, so did the attendance, as visitors filled the midway and buildings throughout the grounds. Children enjoyed the smaller rides as parents watched and photographed the event.

For the thrill seekers, there were an abundance of hair-raising rides to complete the carnival experience. Traditional fair-style foods were available as well as fresh lobster and seafood platters.

The Big E runs through Sunday, Oct 4, day and night.

Keep up with all of The Republican and MassLive's coverage of New England's Great State fair at masslive.com/the-big-e.

Holyoke Police recovered three firearms following a foot pursuit and three arrests in the city's Franklin-street around 7 p.m. Saturday.

SPRINGFIELD ‒ Holyoke Police recovered three firearms and made three arrests following a foot pursuit in the area around Franklin Street Saturday evening.

The police department has not yet released the names of the people arrested, but confirmed that plain clothes officers, who were patrolling the area in response to recent violence, took three people into custody on various alleged gun-related charges around 7 p.m. Details of what led to the foot chase are unclear.

Police recovered three firearms during the incident, and as of the time of publication, officers remained on the scene.

The arrests came just one day after a 17-year-old was shot three times near the corner of Maple and Sargeant streets in Holyoke. Photos from that incident can be seen above.

The Franklin Street arrests were a short distance from Friday's crime scene and also within the city's Churchill neighborhood.

This is a developing story which will be updated as more information becomes available.

The Republican Party's conservative wing, pumped up by House Speaker John Boehner's stepping down, is warning the 2016 presidential candidates that defying its wishes will come at their peril.

WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party's conservative wing, pumped up by House Speaker John Boehner's stepping down, is warning the 2016 presidential candidates that defying its wishes will come at their peril.

Religious activists forcefully conveyed this message Saturday: embrace our uncompromising stance against abortion rights and gay marriage, among other priorities, even if doing so risks a federal government shutdown.

An emboldened conservative movement signals fresh trouble for White House candidates viewed by the party's frustrated base as insufficiently committed to their cause. Chief among them is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

"Conservatives are on fire at the moment," said Gary Bauer, a former president of the Family Research Council. He was among the featured speakers at the Values Voter annual conference that brought an estimated 2,000 evangelical activists to Washington this weekend.

Boehner's announcement that he would resign from Congress by the end of October came without warning Friday, nearly four months before voting begins in the presidential primary. His decision revealed a deep divide within the GOP that raises questions about the party's ability to unite behind one candidate next spring.

Hard-line conservatives were deeply disappointed with the last two Republican presidential nominees -- former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Arizona Sen. John McCain. Boehner was unpopular among conservative activists, and his resignation will give them new hope that the party may choose a candidate who energizes the most passionate voters, even if that nominee is seen as less attractive to a general election crowd.

A co-founder of the tea party movement said Boehner was just another of the establishment figures taken down by frustrated conservatives. "Today, the insurgency is more emboldened than ever and looks to even further dominate the presidential elections in 2016," said Mark Meckler. "Our influence is growing."

In the crowded hallways of the Values Voter conference, 60-year-old Alvin Kaddatz said the turmoil on Capitol Hill sends a clear message to the presidential field. "They need to be listening to what the people are saying," said Kaddatz, who sells farm equipment in Hillsboro, Texas. "They need to follow through on their promises. And if they don't, elections have consequences."

It's unclear whether grass-roots conservatives can back up their tough talk.

But in an undeniably anti-establishment climate, the leading presidential contenders appear to be complying, for now.

Most support a tea party-backed measure to strip federal dollars from the women's health care provider Planned Parenthood as part of budget negotiations, even if such a move causes a partial government shutdown as early as this coming week.

Polls show a majority of voters oppose such brinkmanship over this issue. Republicans were largely blamed the last time government shutdown over funding for the Affordable Care Act, which lasted 16 days in 2013.

Who's indicated a willingness to take it that far? Businessman Donald Trump; Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas; former technology executive Carly Fiorina; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Govs. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Chris Christie of New Jersey; and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

All those in the race want to strip the money from Planned Parenthood, but only a few want to do that without risking a shutdown. Put Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich in this category. That does little to help's Bush's standing with conservatives, already skeptical of his commitment to their principles.

Bush was a noticeable omission from the Values Voter speaking program. He cited a scheduling conflict.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, which hosted the weekend conference, was surprised by Bush's absence.

"He needs to do well with this voting bloc," Perkins said of social conservatives. "Especially where he's at now in the polls. He needs all the help he can get."

Bush's team cited 14 public and private meetings with religious conservative leaders since April, suggesting that his absence from the Values Voter summit did not signal a lack of commitment to their priorities.

For Arlie Olsen, 64, who raises pigs in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, Boehner's departure was "a good omen for where the country may be headed."

Olsen offered a message to his party's 2016 class: "It is going to be really hard for a candidate to win if they don't have the backing of this group."

Nearly 600 East Longmeadow National Grid customers lost power around 7:17 p.m. Saturday evening.

SPRINGFIELD ‒ Nearly 600 East Longmeadow National Grid customers lost power Saturday evening.

According to the power company, the outage, impacting more than 560 customers, began around 7:17 p.m.

East Longmeadow police said they are unaware of what may have caused the outage near the city's North Main Street.

National Grid estimates that power should be restored by 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

In a scene rich with historical symbolism, Pope Francis arrived in the City of Brotherly Love on Saturday, offering warm and affectionate words of welcome to immigrants and extolling America's founding ideals of liberty and equality. Watch video

PHILADELPHIA -- He spoke at Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed. He stood at the very lectern Abraham Lincoln used to deliver the Gettysburg Address. And he stepped forward to the stirring strains of "Fanfare for the Common Man."

In a scene rich with historical symbolism, Pope Francis arrived in the City of Brotherly Love on Saturday, offering warm and affectionate words of welcome to immigrants and extolling America's founding ideals of liberty and equality.

"Those ringing words continue to inspire us today," the pope said of the Declaration of Independence, "even as they have inspired peoples throughout the world to fight for the freedom to live in accordance with their dignity."

He cited the abolition of slavery, the growth of the labor movement and the fight for racial equality as proof that "when a country is determined to remain true to its founding principles, based on respect for human dignity, it is strengthened and renewed."

At the same time, Francis warned that religious freedom is under threat. But it was not the hard-hitting discussion some conservative American bishops may have wanted to hear.

Loath to get dragged into domestic culture wars, the pope did not mention gay marriage, abortion or government-mandated birth control coverage by name, speaking of threats to religious liberty in broader, more global terms.

He decried "a world where various forms of modern tyranny seek to suppress religious freedom, or try to reduce it to a subculture without right to a voice in the public square, or to use religion as a pretext for hatred and brutality."

Using the occasion instead to embrace other causes close to his heart, Francis encouraged immigrants in the crowd of 40,000 to celebrate their heritage and traditions, and he assured them they are of value to America.

"By contributing your gifts, you will not only find your place here, you will help to renew society from within," the first pope from Latin America said in his native Spanish.

On Saturday night, tens of thousands gathered on the wide Benjamin Franklin Parkway for a music-and-prayer festival featuring Aretha Franklin, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and actor Mark Wahlberg.

Sitting on a huge throne, Francis listened to the entertainment and to several families tell their stories of joys and troubles.

But in an indication that Francis was lagging from the exhaustion of a weeklong trip to Cuba and the U.S., the program was trimmed after it ran more than an hour late and Francis ditched his prepared remarks to instead deliver an off-the-cuff monologue on families and God's love.

He called families a "factory of hope," even with their imperfections.

"Defend the family, because that's where our future will play out," he said.

After he finished, a chant erupted from Logan Square: "!Viva El Papa, Viva La Familia!"

Francis came to Philadelphia to close out the World Meeting of Families, a Vatican-sponsored conference of more than 18,000 people from around the world. He found a city practically under lockdown, with blocked-off streets and checkpoints manned by police, National Guardsmen and border agents.

There had been fears that visitors might be scared away by the security, and, in fact, train ridership was lower than expected, some streets were eerily quiet and a vendor of pope sunglasses cut his price from $15 to $10 for lack of business.

It remains to be seen if the expected 1 million people turn out for Francis' final Mass in the U.S., on the Parkway on Sunday.

Earlier in the day Saturday, the pontiff arrived from New York at the Philadelphia airport, where a Catholic high school band launched into the theme song from the Philadelphia-set movie "Rocky." Among those greeting him was Richard Bowes, a former Philadelphia police officer wounded in the line of duty. Francis also kissed the forehead of a 10-year-old boy severely disabled with cerebral palsy.

Then he celebrated a Mass for about 1,600 people at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, saying in his homily that the future of the Catholic Church in the U.S. requires a much more active role for lay Catholics, especially women.

"It means valuing the immense contribution which women, lay and religious, have made and continue to make to the life of our communities," he said.

Francis has repeatedly said women should have a greater role in church leadership, though he has rejected the idea of ordaining women. By calling for more involvement of women and the laity, he seemed intent on healing one of the major rifts in American Catholicism that have alienated many from the church.

Later in the day, he traveled to red-brick Independence Hall in his open-sided Jeep, rolling slowly past adoring crowds and kissing babies handed to him by members of his security detail.

During the first two legs of his U.S. visit, in Washington and New York, he addressed Congress and the United Nations, urging action on such global issues as climate change and economic inequality. The Philadelphia visit is expected to be more personal, more focused on ordinary Catholics and their families.

"He has a magnetic personality that not only appeals to Catholics, but to the universal masses. He's not scripted. He's relatable," said Filipina Opena, 46, a Catholic from LaMirada, California.

Tony Coletta, a 62-year-old Philadelphia-area surgeon and health care company CEO who helped raise money for the papal visit, said: "I believe that he's going to bring the Catholic Church back in America in a way that nobody's ever seen before. His message resonates. It's much more of an all-encompassing one. And the small things that he does, spending time with the poor, it's more than just symbolic."

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia organized the conference, hoping for a badly needed infusion of enthusiasm amid shrinking membership, financial troubles and one of the worst clergy sex-abuse scandals to hit a U.S. diocese.

The archdiocese has been the target of repeated investigations. In 2011, before Archbishop Charles Chaput came to Philadelphia, a grand jury accused the diocese of keeping on assignment more than three dozen priests facing serious abuse accusations.

A monsignor who oversaw priest assignments was found guilty of child endangerment, becoming the first American church official convicted of a crime for failing to stop abusers.

The pope is widely expected to talk privately with abuse victims this weekend.

The visit is also shaping up as one of the most interesting ecclesial pairings of the pope's trip. His host is Chaput, an outspoken opponent of abortion and gay marriage who takes an especially hard line.

Francis has strongly upheld church teaching on such issues but has struck a more compassionate note, saying, "Who am I to judge?" when asked about a supposedly gay priest.

Here are the winning jackpot drawing for Saturday, September 26, 2015.

So did that $2 you plunked down for a Powerball ticket pay off in the latest drawing? Check your numbers here.

The winning numbers in Saturday evening's Powerball drawing were:
23, 31, 42, 50, 57, Powerball: 05, Powerplay: 3X

The estimated jackpot is $266.6 million. It is the second-highest Powerball jackpot this year.

Powerball drawings are Wednesdays and Saturdays and are offered in the 44 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Meanwhile changes are coming to the 36-state Powerball game. According to MLive.com, the changes will make it more difficult to win the jackpot, but will increase chances players will win larger secondary prizes.

The Oct. 7 drawing will be the first with 69 white balls, up from 59, and 26 red balls, down from 35. The winner must match all five white balls drawn as well as the red ball to win the jackpot.

The changes make the chances of winning it all 1 in 292 million instead of 1 in 175 million, MLive.com says. However, the odds of winning any prize improve from 1 in 32 to 1 in 25.

Michigan Lottery spokesman Jeff Holyfield said the changes come from player feedback, including those that said they play only as the $2 ticket jackpots grow. In other words, by making it more difficult to win the jackpot, the top prize is likely to grow even larger, possibly over $1 billion.

The only bigger jackpot this year came Feb. 11, when three Powerball players (one each in North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas) split a $564 million jackpot.

MLive.com and Cleveland.com contributed this report.

Police also seized electronic storage hardware after searching his home.

CABOT, VT - Police have charged a 31-year-old man with aggravated sexual assault of a child after a teenager, who gave birth alone, accused him of repeatedly assaulting her.

Richard E. Danner, 31, of Cabot, Vt., is being held on $50,000 bail and will appear in Washington County Superior Court on Monday to answer the charges, police said.

The arrest came after the Department of Children and Families contacted Vermont State Police and said a girl under the age of 16 had given birth and was taken to Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Friday. The girl had no prenatal care during the pregnancy or the delivery, police said.

An investigation revealed Danner allegedly had been sexually assaulting the victim over an extended period of time, police said.

The victim's name and age was not revealed to protect her privacy.

A search warrant was executed at Danner's residence on Saturday and electronic storage hardware was seized. It is expected to be analyzed by the State Police Computer Crimes unit, police said.

The investigation is continuing and more charges may be filed in the future, police said.

There were a few exceptions. But for most owners, the lofty expectations turned into anger and disappointment. Watch video

Pilgrims get hungry waiting for hours to get past checkpoints to see Pope Francis in Philadelphia.

But those who haven't packed granola bars or PB & J sandwiches either go hungry or have to have someone in their group jump out of line and buy something from a nearby shop. If they are able to do that.

For restaurant owners across the city, business has been hit or miss this weekend. That Pope Effect scenario everyone was expecting - the tremendous amount of business that was expected to be generated by the pontiff's visit to Philadelphia - has panned out for only a few.

Across town, some businesses eventually shuttered and others are finding that even if they open, pope business has been abysmal.

"It's been awful. It's been our slowest weekend," said Allison Lauria of Peddler's Coffee, located at Spring and 21st streets and just a couple blocks off the Parkway. Her specialty coffee shop has been dead all weekend and on Sunday she and husband Rick Kessler decided to keep it closed.

That's a far different scenario from the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars in business the pope's visit to the city was expected to generate.

Marc Vetri, one of Philadelphia's best-known chefs, articulated the exasperation of many restaurant owners when on Saturday he put a post on Facebook complaining about the significant effects of the security measures that were put into place. "We didn't need to close every street, bridge and alley, scaring most people," he wrote. "The goal was to give a shot of adrenaline into our economy, not hurt small and large business alike so they had to close."

Tarek Albasti, owner of Aya's Cafe near Logan Square, ordered extra inventory for his Mediterranean restaurant, needlessly as it turned out. Business has been at a standstill all weekend. Albasti - or Chef TK as locals call him - even geared up to spend the night at the restaurant with his staff to make sure it was prepared for the demand. Instead, nothing. No business, no patrons. The extra food and supplies is just sitting, waiting for the customers.

"It's terrible," he said. "I know there is a crowd. but we haven't seen anyone," he said Sunday.

At one point, hundreds filed past his restaurant, and even though he was standing outside with a makeshift coffee stand, no one stopped to buy.

Albasti says he feels trapped, as it's nearly impossible to navigate this part of town.

With only a few hours before the Papal Mass was to begin, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims remained in checkpoint lines waiting to clear security.

Albasti blamed part of the problem with the fact that so many of the local residents left town - most, he said, scared away by the predictions that the city would be mayhem this weekend.

"We've lost 50, maybe 60 percent of business," Chef TK said.

For many of the pilgrims, the only food around was what they brought in their backpacks.

Michael Jonas, who was waiting in line near Logan Square, settled for the fig cookies he had packed. He said he would have taken advantage of the shops along 21st Street on his way to the security checkpoint, but he couldn't get out of line or negotiate the middle of line to get to the other side of the street to buy pizza at Logan Square Pizza Grill.

"If I was on the other side, I'd probably order 18 slices," he said Sunday morning.

For some business owners, papal business was good.

Pete Kada, owner of Pete's Famous Pizza, typically sells pizza only by the pie but this weekend was baking non-stop, selling it by the slice to the pilgrims. On Sunday, business was hopping as the line of pilgrims in the cattle chutes jumped out of line to buy his wares by the slice.

"We've hit an all-time record," Kada said on Sunday as the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims waiting to clear the security points for the Ben Franklin Parkway filed past his shop.

Kada was ready for the demand: He ordered extra supplies, beer and sodas. Incidentally, he didn't adjust prices too much. The beer was selling for the same price as always.

Last year a record-breaking 1,498,605 people attended the Big E.

WEST SPRINGFIELD - The Eastern States Exposition is on target to break another record, following two busy days this weekend.

Saturday the crowd total was 164,569, which is high but not record-breaking. The second Saturday of last year's fair drew more than 170,000, which was the highest number of people ever attending one day of the Big E, Noreen Tassinari, marketing director for the fair.

The second weekend of the Big E typically draws the largest crowds. On Sunday the sunny weather and temperatures in the low 70's made it perfect fair weather and increased attendance. The crowd totals will not be reported until Monday, she said.

"Today is a beautiful day. It is a big day," she said.

There were few complaints about traffic backups, with the exception of slow traffic on Memorial Avenue. But there were so many people the Exposition's 9,000-car parking lot filled up at about 1:30 p.m., Tassinari said.

Fair officials closed the lot for about a half-hour and directed people to the many private parking spots along Memorial Avenue. When early birds began leaving around 2 p.m., the lot was re-opened, she said.

It is common for fair officials to temporarily close the parking lot at times on busy weekends, she said.

Police directing traffic at a variety of different locations combined with a Google maps program that shows where the heaviest traffic is, has seemed to have reduced the worst traffic jams, she said.

Big E officials said they have a good chance to break last year's record and possibly hit the 1.5 million attendance mark this year. At the end of Saturday, the ninth day of the 17-day-fair, 766,876 people walked through the gates of the Eastern States Exposition.

"A year ago we had our highest attendance on record and we are ahead of that by 61,154," Tassinari said.

Last year's attendance was 1,498,605.

Sunday night is expected to be busy with Ace Frehley, the lead guitarist of Kiss, performing at the Xfinity Arena, she said.

Unfortunately for the Big E, the upcoming week could bring some wetter weather, especially on Tuesday.

EASTHAMPTON — The Public Library Association of Easthampton on Saturday announced the resignation of Tamsen Conner as Director of the Emily Williston Memorial Library. Conner's resignation was accepted "with sadness," but the library association "is happy to see her off on new adventures in California," wrote Tom Raffemsperger, a member of the library's governing board, in a statement. Raffensperger thanked...

EASTHAMPTON -- The Public Library Association of Easthampton on Saturday announced the resignation of Tamsen Conner as Director of the Emily Williston Memorial Library.

Conner's resignation was accepted "with sadness," but the library association "is happy to see her off on new adventures in California," wrote Tom Raffemsperger, a member of the library's governing board, in a statement. Raffensperger thanked Conner for her "excellent service."

Conner, who possesses a master's degree in information science from the University of Texas, is moving to Los Angeles with her partner, who has found new opportunities as a voice actor, said Raffensperger.

Conner, who became director in November of 2014, "strengthened the library's circulating collections, enhanced and expanded programming options, and at the same time ensured the smooth day to day operations of the library," Raffesperger said.

Conner in a statement said she is grateful for her time as library director, and that "it's been an honor working with the superb staff at the library and serving the wonderful Easthampton community."

When Conner, a Lenox native, started work ten months ago, she became the city's fifth library director in seven years. She replaced Stephanie Sueppel, an Iowa transplant who lasted only two months and six days on the job.

In December, Conner said she was so happy with her new job at the Emily Williston Memorial Library that she "felt like she won the lottery."

The next supermoon with an eclipse is not expected to happen for four years.

Tonight is bringing a rare combination of a supermoon and a lunar eclipse, drawing excitement especially for amateur astronomers.

According to NASA, the type of eclipses are very rare. The last time happened nearly 30 years ago.

Supermoons, also known as bloodmoons, happen about once a year when the moon sometimes is closer to the earth in its rotation. The phenomenon happens because the orbit of the moon is not a perfect circle.

The lunar eclipse will happen at the same time, when the Earth's shadow will swallow up the moon for about an hour, NASA officials said.

The event is prompting the Springfield Science Museum to hold a special activity where members of the Springfield Stars Club will be able to view the eclipse with telescopes.
If it is too cloudy, the eclipse can also be viewed on the NASA website and other websites.

Here are some of the things people are tweeting about the lunar eclipse.

Paterson Police Director Jerry Speziale says the 25-year-old Wap was cited for driving without a license, not having insurance and failing to produce a vehicle registration card.

PATERSON, N.J. -- "Trap Queen" rapper Fetty Wap has received three summonses after he was injured in a motorcycle crash in his northern New Jersey hometown.

Paterson Police Director Jerry Speziale says the 25-year-old Wap was cited for driving without a license, not having insurance and failing to produce a vehicle registration card.

Wap was hospitalized after police say his motorcycle collided with a car Saturday afternoon. Police said his injuries were not considered life-threatening.

.@fettywap "responsive" after serious motorcycle accident http://t.co/f7RR7DsN8i pic.twitter.com/42vHQoeGNl

-- The FADER (@thefader) September 26, 2015

.@fettywap's management have released a statement on his condition http://t.co/f7RR7DKnZQ pic.twitter.com/Jt0QQPkyfF

-- The FADER (@thefader) September 27, 2015

Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, has had three Top-10 songs in the last year and released his debut album "Fetty Wap" on Friday.

A message seeking comment from a representative for Wap was not immediately returned Sunday afternoon. It wasn't immediately clear if Wap had an attorney.

The woman driving the car also was hurt.

About 12,000 people participated in the two-day event at the Southwick Motocross 338 Watch video

SOUTHWICK - The 2015 New England Rugged Maniac Obstacle Race returned to town Sunday with 4,500 participants who waited their turn at the starting line.

The two-day event was staged at the Southwick Motocross 338 on Powder Mill Road and featured 27 obstacles to test endurance and confidence. Heats were limited to 300 participants at any time.

Contestants were faced with obstacles like the Pyromaniac, the Barricades, the Pack Mule, the Shoe Catcher, the Ninja Escape, the Beam Me Up, and plenty of water hazard obstacles like the 50-foot Accelerator water slide.

For the more conservative competitors, a mechanical bull was on hand with entertainment and games in the main parking lot.

Race officials said an estimated 12,000 people participated in the two-day event. Check out photos from Sunday's fun above, and click here for more from Saturday's participants.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia had no plans "right now" to put combat troops on the ground in Syria, but would continue backing the Syrian government.

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin said Russia had no plans "right now" to put combat troops on the ground in Syria, but would continue backing the Syrian government.

The Russian leader, speaking in an interview broadcast Sunday on the eve of his meeting with President Barack Obama, also sharply criticized U.S. military support for Syrian rebels, describing it as not only illegal but counterproductive.

His statements show how far apart Russia and the U.S. remained on Syria going into Monday's meeting between the two presidents. Putin and Obama were set to meet on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, after both address the annual gathering of world leaders.

A Russian military buildup in Syria, a longtime ally, has raised concerns in Washington. Putin and other officials have said only that Russia was providing weapons and training to Syrian President Bashar Assad's army to help it combat the Islamic State group. Asked if Russia could send troops to join the fight, Putin previously said "we are looking at various options."

He was somewhat more definitive in the latest interview.

"Russia will not participate in any troop operations in the territory of Syria or in any other states. Well, at least we don't plan on it right now," Putin said in the interview on CBS' "60 Minutes."

"But we are considering intensifying our work with both President Assad and with our partners in other countries," he added, according to an English-language transcript.

In a dig at the U.S., Putin noted the Pentagon's recent admission that an effort to train more than 5,000 Syrian rebels had yielded only four or five fighters after about 50 others were captured, wounded or fled in their first encounter with extremist militants.

"It turns out that just 60 were properly trained, only four or five with weapons are fighting, while the rest of them simply took the American weapons and ran over to join ISIS," Putin, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State group, said in an excerpt released earlier in the day by the Kremlin and omitted from the U.S. broadcast.

Defending Russia's military buildup in Syria and support for Assad, he described the Syrian government army as the only legitimate one in Syria and said the U.S. military support for "illegal structures" ran counter to international law and the U.N. charter.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Sunday to prepare the ground for the presidents' meeting.

"We are just at the beginning of trying to understand what the Russians intentions are in Syria, in Iraq and try to see if there are mutually beneficial ways forward here," a senior U.S. official said on condition of anonymity, lacking authorization to speak publicly about a private meeting. "We have a long way to go in that conversation."

The woman is being held on $10,040 bail and will be arraigned on Monday.

ARLINGTON - A woman, arrested for driving drunk while she had two children in her car, is being accused of causing three different car accidents Saturday.

Lillian Claudio, 35, of Winthrop, is charged with causing serious bodily injury by operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, leaving the scene of personal injury, child endangerment while operating under the influence, children between the ages of 6 and 12-years-old not wearing a seatbelt, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of property damage, said Police Chief Frederick Ryan.

She is being held on $10,040 cash bail by the Arlington Police Department and is scheduled to be arraigned in Cambridge District Court Monday.

The path of destruction started at about 6 p.m. with an accident that left a 33-year-old Somerville man with serious injuries, Ryan said.

Initially a black 2014 Kia Optima sedan hit a parked 2003 Ford Explorer head-on on Wyman Street. The impact caused the explorer to spin 360 degrees and ejected the man, who was sitting in the driver's seat. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital by ambulance with life-threatening injuries, he said.

The driver of the sedan allegedly fled the scene and shortly afterward failed to stop at a stop sign, striking the driver's side of a 2010 Nissan Murano. The driver and his passenger were treated on the scene for minor injuries and did not go to the hospital, Ryan said.

A witness then observed the same sedan accelerating, but it then collided head-on with another parked car, a Ford F350. The truck was unoccupied, he said.

At that time, police were able to stop the driver of the sedan, Ryan said.

"Police noticed a heavy odor of alcohol present in the motor vehicle. Inside her vehicle were five passengers, including two children, who were not in age appropriate car seats. All five occupants were taken to area hospitals with injuries," he said.

The Middlesex District Attorney's Office and the Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section are assisting Arlington Police with the investigation, which remains open and ongoing. The Department of Children and Families has been notified of the accidents, Ryan said.

One party had more than 400 people in attendance.

HADLEY - Police responded to three back-to-back complaints about large and noisy parties over the weekend, including one that had more than 400 people attending.

Under a policy designed to crack down on noise complaints and loud parties, landlords of all three homes were or will be notified. The dean of students' office at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will also be notified if tenants at any of the apartments are students, Police Sgt. Mitchell Kuc said.

The first complaint was made at about 11 p.m., Saturday for a loud party on South Maple Street. Police found more than 400 people at the gathering and it took officers more than an hour to clear it, Kuc said.

One person was taken to the hospital for alcohol-related problems in that incident, he said.

About a half-hour later police received a second call for a loud party on North Maple Street. Because all the officers were tied up at the first party, the University of Massachusetts Police were asked to assist, he said.

The third party with loud music was reported at about 12:30 a.m., Sunday in another location on North Maple Street, Kuc said.

In all three cases the tenants were informed about the noise ordinances and given warnings because there have been no previous complaints at the homes. Hadley Police will fine and arrest repeat offenders of the town's noise ordinance, he said.

President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to a new blueprint to eliminate poverty and hunger around the world, telling a global summit that a sweeping new development agenda is "not charity but instead is one of the smartest investments we can make in our own future."

UNITED NATIONS -- President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to a new blueprint to eliminate poverty and hunger around the world, telling a global summit that a sweeping new development agenda is "not charity but instead is one of the smartest investments we can make in our own future."

It was the first of two addresses Obama is making at the United Nations. His second on Monday morning, to the annual U.N. General Assembly of world leaders, will be a broader examination of world issues, especially the ever-more complicated conflict in Syria and the related refugee crisis.

As Secretary of State John Kerry put it after a meeting on the sidelines Sunday, "It would be a complete understatement to say that we meet at a challenging time."

Obama offered a powerful defense of a 15-year development agenda that will require trillions of dollars of effort from countries, companies and civil society.

He told delegates that 800 million men, women and children scrape by on less than $1.25 a day and that billions of people are at risk of dying from preventable diseases. He called it a "moral outrage" that many children are just one mosquito bite away from death.

And, with a possible nod toward his address on Monday, he noted that "military interventions might have been avoided over the years" if countries had spent more time, money and effort on caring for their own people. That line drew applause.

"Development is threatened by war," Obama said, and war often arises from bad governance. Addressing the world's greatest refugee crisis since World War II as millions flee conflict in Syria and elsewhere, he said countries "that can, must do more to accommodate refugees" but added those efforts must be matched by diplomacy.

United States President Barack Obama, bottom, shakes hands with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after addressing the 2015 Sustainable Development Summit, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) 

The leaders of Britain, France, Japan and Turkey also were addressing the final day of the development summit. On Monday, the annual General Assembly high-level debate gives countries a chance to lay out their broader vision before the world.

World leaders have already begun a whirlwind series of closed-door meetings on Syria on the U.N. sidelines. Obama meets Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who hasn't shown up to the U.N. meeting for a decade.

Earlier Sunday, French President Francois Hollande announced his country's first airstrikes in Syria, raising the stakes in a region where a U.S.-led coalition nervously watches a new Russian military buildup near Syria's Mediterranean coast.

Putin is expected to make a strong defense of those moves and urge countries to join a Russian-led effort against extremist groups like the Islamic State group. On Sunday, Iraq's military said it will begin sharing "security and intelligence" information with Russia, Syria and Iran to help combat IS.

"We coordinate the efforts against ISIL," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters just before meeting Kerry on Sunday, referring to an acronym for the group.

Kerry disagreed, telling reporters: "This is not yet coordinated. I think we have concerns about how we're going to go forward, but that's precisely what we're meeting on to talk about now."

Iran is also a major question, with the United States and the United Nations both reaching out in the diplomatic glow of the new nuclear deal for the Islamic Republic's help in finding political solutions in Syria and the newer conflict in Yemen as well.

Iran President Hassan Rouhani is already at the U.N. summit and is set to address the U.N. gathering Monday morning along with Obama, Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping -- who is making his first appearance here.

Amid the bustle of the back-to-back summit speeches Sunday, Brazil's president announced her country's climate commitment ahead of a global summit in December in Paris aimed at a climate treaty. President Dilma Rousseff said Brazil will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent by 2025 from 2005 levels as part of its contribution to a pact to fight global warming.

And the current refugee and migrant crisis is another top issue under feverish discussion. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro spun the crisis into a chance to make a thinly veiled critique of the United States, blaming the problem on "unjust wars, imperialist wars, the attempt to control the world, one hegemon trying to impose its view on the world."

North Korea was harsher on Washington. It's foreign minister, Ri Su Yong, accused the United States of trying to "suffocate" it through sanctions.

The sanctions imposed by Washington are in retaliation for Pyongyang's refusal to mothball its nuclear weapons program. Ri said the U.S. measures are a result of America's "inveterate animosity and hostile policy" aimed at toppling the communist system.

Jacqueline Ritchie-Dunham was charged with drunken driving, speeding and driving without a license.

HADLEY - Police stopped a 20-year-old woman for allegedly driving 20 miles over the speed limit and charged her with drunken driving Sunday morning.

Jacqueline Ritchie-Dunham, of Belchertown, was stopped at about 2:30 a.m. after a police officer spotted her driving 61 miles an hour on Route 9, which has a 40-mile-an-hour speed limit, Police Sgt. Mitchell Kuc said.

When police stopped her she could not find her license and failed a field sobriety test. She is accused of having a blood alcohol level of .15 while the legal limit is .08, he said.

Ritchie-Dunham was charged with drunken driving, speeding and driving without a license in possession. Because she is under 21 she also faces an enhanced license suspension, he said.

Freedom of religion isn't reason enough to deny any American their constitutional rights, President Barack Obama said Sunday as he addressed members of the LGBT community, one of his major sources of political and financial support.

NEW YORK -- Freedom of religion isn't reason enough to deny any American their constitutional rights, President Barack Obama said Sunday as he addressed members of the LGBT community, one of his major sources of political and financial support.

Speaking at a Democratic Party fundraiser, Obama said it's important to recognize that some parts of the country remain uncomfortable with same-sex marriage and that it will take time for them to catch up to the majority of Americans who support such unions.

But while Americans hold dear the constitutional right to practice their religion free from government interference, he said that right can't be used to deny constitutional rights to others.

"We affirm that we cherish our religious freedom and are profoundly respectful of religious traditions," Obama said during remarks that were interrupted by repeated applause and cheers. "But we also have to say clearly that our religious freedom doesn't grant us the freedom to deny our fellow Americans their constitutional rights."

"And that even as we are respectful and accommodating genuine concerns and interests of religious institutions, we need to reject politicians who are supporting new forms of discrimination as a way to scare up votes. That's not how we move America forward," he added. That was an apparent reference to some of the Republican presidential candidates.

Earlier this month, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis spent several days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples despite a Supreme Court ruling that made same-sex unions legal nationwide. Davis said such marriages violate her Apostolic Christian faith.

Since being released, the Rowan County clerk has allowed marriage licenses to be issued, but only without her name and title. She also announced that she has left the Democratic Party and become a Republican.

Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, the legal case that led the Supreme Court in June to rule narrowly in favor of gay marriage, introduced Obama.

The president began by recalling for his supporters that "seven years ago, we came together not just to elect a president, but to reaffirm our faith in that most American of ideals: the notion that people, no matter where they come from ... or who they love can change this country."

He noted that everyone in the U.S., regardless of sexual orientation, is protected by a federal hate crimes law he signed in his first year as president, and that federal contractors are barred from terminating employees for being gay.

Obama got some of his biggest cheers and loudest applause when he said "we live in an America where 'don't ask, don't tell' is something that 'don't exist.'" Obama lifted the Pentagon policy that barred gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

"And tonight, thanks to the unbending sense of justice passed down through generations of citizens who never gave up hope that we could bring this country closer to our founding ideals ... we now live in America where our marriages are equal as well," he said.