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few options for care, tribal officials said.
• California's Yurock Tribe expects to have 60 furloughed workers back on the job within 48 hours, said the tribe's vice chairman, Susan Masten. That comes after the tribe shut down a wide range of programs Oct. 7, including tutoring programs for students, funds for the elderly, college scholarships, and general assistance payments to about 50 families.
• Masten said she fears that in a few months, when the current budget deal expires, those programs could be threatened yet again.
• On Montana's Fort Belknap Reservation, the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes are considering taking out a loan of almost $2 million to cover the cost of home heating for the poor, medical transportation, meals for seniors and other programs that were continued through the shutdown with tribal money, said tribal President Tracy "Ching" King.
• A loan would sap the tribes' budget since they would have to pay an unspecified amount of interest. But King said there was little choice, and that the money would protect against a repeat scenario should congressional budget negotiations again unravel in coming months.
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Peterson attended son's funeral on Wednesday
JON KRAWCZYNSKI, AP Sports Writer
• EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) -- Two months ago, around the time the Minnesota Vikings were losing their second preseason game, Adrian Peterson was given some surprising news.
• The star running back says he found out then he had a 2-year-old son living in Sioux Falls, S.D., named Tyrese Robert Ruffin. He had been working with Tyrese's mother to arrange a meeting with the boy when he received a call last week that the child was in the hospital with severe injuries.
• Peterson raced to South Dakota last Thursday, where he saw little Tyrese for the first time. The boy died a day later in an alleged case of child abuse, and Peterson has been trying to come to grips with it ever since.
• Peterson attended Tyrese's funeral Wednesday and returned to Minnesota for practice on Thursday. His voice wavered when he discussed Tyrese publicly for the first time, trying to grapple with mourning the death of a son he never got to know.
• "I was planning on seeing him. I had a talk with his mom and we got some things together as far as financially helping her," Peterson said. "Unfortunately, this situation took place. It's devastating."
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