{"id":377639,"date":"2025-12-30T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377639\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:04:07","slug":"nascar-driver-dedicated-emotional-race-win-to-dad-2-months-before-deadly-fire-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377639\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR driver dedicated emotional race win to dad 2 months before deadly fire &#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 below.<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin dedicated emotional race win to dad 2 months before deadly fire<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The NASCAR star won his milestone 60th Cup Series race in October as his dad\u2019s health declined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/12\/30\/nascar-driver-denny-hamlin-dedicated-emotional-race-win-dad-2-months-before-deadly-fire\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/12\/30\/nascar-driver-denny-hamlin-dedicated-emotional-race-win-dad-2-months-before-deadly-fire\/\">Full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>78 arrested at Target, Walmart stores across Gaston County during \u2018Operation Naughty List\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The operation targeted thefts at well-known retail locations in Gastonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/12\/30\/78-arrested-target-walmart-stores-across-gaston-county-during-operation-naughty-list\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/12\/30\/78-arrested-target-walmart-stores-across-gaston-county-during-operation-naughty-list\/\">Details here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Panthers\u2019 chance to make the playoffs just got a whole lot better<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thanks to some help, the Panthers can make the playoffs even if they don\u2019t beat the Buccaneers this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/12\/30\/panthers-chance-make-playoffs-just-got-whole-lot-better\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/12\/30\/panthers-chance-make-playoffs-just-got-whole-lot-better\/\">Latest on the Panthers here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weather: Brief cold snap arrives before temps return to normal ahead of next rain chance<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tuesday will be the coldest day of the week before temperatures rebound some.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/12\/30\/brief-cold-snap-arrives-carolinas-before-temps-return-normal-ahead-next-rain-chance\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2025\/12\/30\/brief-cold-snap-arrives-carolinas-before-temps-return-normal-ahead-next-rain-chance\/\">Read the full forecast here<\/a>, or watch below.<\/p>\n<p>Highs are forecast to only reach the mid-40s in Charlotte on Tuesday.<\/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":377640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-377639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377639","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=377639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}