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MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson took to Twitter to defend himself in the court of public opinion on the eve of his first appearance in a Montgomery County, Texas, court to fight charges of child abuse. Peterson disputed a number of claims in a Minneapolis Star Tribune story that ran Sunday, saying the newspaper highlighted financial discrepancies with Peterson's charity that had since been corrected and refuting a claim he used a charity credit card to pay for a 2011 party that resulted in rape allegations against the running back. Hennepin County, Minnesota, prosecutors declined to pursue sexual assault charges against Peterson after a lengthy investigation, and Peterson said in a series of tweets Tuesday night that he never had a credit card from his charity, the All Day Foundation. He also said his foundation had resolved the financial issues highlighted in the newspaper's story, adding that the organization had...