Sioux Falls Police: Adrian Peterson’s son has died

Adrian Peterson

CBS TV4 in Minnesota is reporting that Adrian Peterson’s 2-year-old son, who had been in critical condition after being beaten, has died from his injuries, according to Sioux Falls police.

Peterson was in Sioux Falls on Thursday, visiting the boy who police said had been allegedly beaten severely by the man who the mother of the boy is dating.

The child that Peterson was seen with this fall at training camp is not the 2-year-old who has died.

Joseph Robert Patterson, 27, was arrested in the case and is expected to be charged in the coming days with aggravated assault and aggravated battery of an infant, in addition to murder.
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Mullet Over #582

By James White

President Teddy Roosevelt

President Teddy Roosevelt’s famous line “Speak softly and carry a big stick” was apparently a re-phrased West African proverb that Theodore thought to be apropos for him and his governing policies. I experienced a high school coach that had the very same philosophy (except for the walk softly part).

The Medal of Honor (often mistakenly called the Congressional Medal of Honor) was first awarded to six Union Army volunteers in 1863. One of the original six medals is on display at the Smithsonian Institution. There are three varieties of the award that vary slightly according to the military branches of the recipients.
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Dan Keating appointed to State Board of Education

Dan Keating

Governor Mary Fallin today appointed Daniel Keating to the State Board of Education. Keating will represent the First Congressional District and replace Joy Hofmeister, who stepped down from the board. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.

Keating is currently the president of Summit Consolidated Group, a national brokerage and insurance company with offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and several other states. Previously, he served as president of Valley National Bank in Tulsa. He currently serves on its board of directors.

Fallin previously appointed Keating to the Tulsa Community College Board of Regents. Keating resigned from his post in order to serve on the State Board of Education.

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Rejecting Islamic extremism

By Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Aid

I have recently returned from visiting Egypt as the head of a delegation of academics, media personnel, politicians and senior ex-military officers from the USA. We met with the young people who initiated the two revolutions, the business community, the chairman of the constitutional committee, the religious communities and the Egyptian military, including the Defense Minister.

Egypt is in the throes of change. The 2011 Arab Spring ousted long-serving President Mubarak. Barely two years later another popular uprising, which saw an estimated 33 million people take to the streets, brought down his successor, President Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, when the army intervened to stop a potential civil war and to ensure that the will of the people was followed.
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Punishment for refusing homosexual event

Betty and Richard Odgaard are owners of the Gortz Haus Gallery and are Mennonites who turned a former church into an art gallery. They even kept the stained glass windows. The Odgaards are now suing Iowa Civil Rights Commission to protect their business, faith and freedom.

Becket Fund attorney Emily Hardman tells OneNewsNow the Odgaards could face punitive action by the Commission for refusing the homosexuals.