{"id":304024,"date":"2025-11-24T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/304024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:52:09","slug":"nascar-team-executive-dies-after-30-years-in-motorsports-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/304024\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR team executive dies after 30+ years in motorsports &#8212; and other news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Morning 3 is a quick roundup of stories we think you should know about to start your day. Check out those stories, and more, below.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR team executive dies after 30+ years in motorsports<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was described as \u201ca dedicated family man\u201d and \u201ca well-respected figure in the world of motorsports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/11\/24\/nascar-team-executive-dies-after-30-years-motorsports\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/11\/24\/nascar-team-executive-dies-after-30-years-motorsports\/\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Postal workers arrested in 6-month Gaston County phone theft operation<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The thefts reportedly happened over several months at a USPS warehouse in Gastonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/11\/24\/postal-workers-arrested-6-month-gaston-county-phone-theft-operation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/11\/24\/postal-workers-arrested-6-month-gaston-county-phone-theft-operation\/\">Details here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man accused of setting woman on fire after refusing to get him beer in North Carolina<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire reportedly burned the woman\u2019s shirt off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/11\/24\/man-accused-setting-woman-fire-after-refusing-get-him-beer-north-carolina\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/11\/24\/man-accused-setting-woman-fire-after-refusing-get-him-beer-north-carolina\/\">More in this story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weather: Thanksgiving week features rain chances, big temperature drop<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Above-average temperatures will start the week before they take a big dip for Thanksgiving and this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/11\/24\/thanksgiving-week-features-rain-chances-big-temperature-drop-charlotte\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/11\/24\/thanksgiving-week-features-rain-chances-big-temperature-drop-charlotte\/\">Read the full forecast here<\/a>, or watch below.<\/p>\n<p>Rain is possible Tuesday and Wednesday but is forecast to clear out by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watch WBTV News and QC Life live in the video player below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morning 3 is a quick roundup of stories we think you should know about to start your day.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,717,136458,634,43461,22865,82,39,136459],"class_list":["post-304024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charlotte","tag-morning-3","tag-nascar","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-wbtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}