Adrian Peterson

Today we all learned about an incredibly disturbing incident involving one of Minnesota's most loved athletes, Adrian Peterson. The star running back for the Vikings has been charged with abusing his 4-year-old son.

Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was indicted on charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child by a Montgomery County, Texas grand jury. The case stems from an incident where Peterson used a switch to discipline the child involved.

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has made mince meat out of opposing NFL defenses, but can he handle a high, hard one from USA Softball's Jennie Finch?

28-year old Joseph Robert Patterson, the man charged with the murder of Minnesota Viking's running back Adrian Peterson's son in October 2013, has been arrested again after kidnapping and attacking the child's mother.

Because we don't have a professional sports team here in North Dakota, we're stuck cheering for teams in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado. That's why it's not very surprising that Adrian Peterson is North Dakota's most Googled athlete.

Adrian Peterson took the field for the Minnesota Vikings game against the Carolina Panthers this past weekend with a heavy heart, following the murder of his two year old son. But should he have played so soon after such a tragedy in his personal life?

Within minutes of the news that Adrian Peterson’s son was on life support after a savage beating, slimy Facebook pages and websites looking for a little publicity started using photos of Adrian’s other son, as if he was the child who died. Now Adrian’s asking it to end.

Adrian Peterson's two-year-old son has died from the injuries allegedly suffered at the hand of 27-year-old Joseph Patterson.

UPDATE 1:40 p.m. ET: TMZ reports the boy is on life support with no brain activity since 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Sources say that if the child fails to show any signs of improvement over the course of the next 24 hours his mother wants to take him off of life support and donate his organs.