Los Angeles – October 30, 2026 -- VIZ Media's manga catalog is now available on MangaPlaza, and readers can earn 10% back in points on VIZ titles for two weeks. VIZ Media and NTT Solmare Corp. announced the launch on the platform, which the companies describe as one of the largest digital manga libraries in the U.S.

Sarasota – October 30, 2026 -- Drivers and dealerships in Florida and South Carolina can now get qualifying windshield damage repaired, not just replaced, by Service Pros Auto Glass.

Repair is new, replacement is not

Service Pros has long handled windshield replacements for drivers and dealerships in both states. Repair is a new service, offered for damage that qualifies under the industry's national standard.

Kinder – October 30, 2026 -- The best junior golfers in the NB3 JGNC Series tee off at Koasati Pines in Kinder, Louisiana, with the Girls National Championship on November 1-3, 2026 and the Boys National Championship on November 6-8.

WATERLOO, Iowa – October 30, 2026 -- Veridian Credit Union members can now use Allstate Identity Protection at no cost through Credit Central, the free credit monitoring tool inside Veridian's online banking.

Identity theft losses hit $27.3 billion in 2025

The Javelin Strategy & Research 2026 Identity Fraud Study put U.S. identity theft losses at an all-time high of $27.3 billion in 2025. Veridian added the benefit as those losses grow.

San Diego – October 30, 2026 -- U.S. service members and veterans with a cancer diagnosis can now get comprehensive genomic profiling and biomarker interpretation at no cost, through a nationwide program called Cancer Hunt from the nonprofit SOTERIA Precision Medicine Foundation.

SOTERIA, a California-based 501(c)(3), is currently accepting both patient referral partners and military and veteran patients with a cancer diagnosis. The program also aims to reduce the administrative burden on treating oncologists and medical institutions.

LAS VEGAS – October 30, 2026 -- Families can get 50% off Midway games and Adventuredome wristbands at Circus Circus Las Vegas on Saturday, October 31, from noon to 3 p.m., with trick-or-treating included at both attractions.

Half-price games at a Midway with 200+ options

The Midway houses more than 200 arcade and carnival games, and all of them are half price during the three-hour window. Trick-or-treating is available at participating games while candy supplies last.

KANSAS CITY – October 30, 2026 -- Two Kansas City haunted attractions, Edge of Hell (open since 1975) and Beast Haunted Attraction (open since 1991), build their scares on more than a monster in a mask, says industry spokesperson Amber Arnett-Bequeaith, known as the Queen of Haunts.

Charleston, S.C. – October 30, 2026 -- Palmetto Publishing has released Not My President, a book of 48 numbered quotations from Donald J. Trump, now available at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.

Each entry is one quotation followed by a plain footnote naming the speaker, the venue, the city and the date. The compiler, listed as J. Williams, adds no jokes and no analysis. The full title is Not My President: Dumb Things Said by the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

CHARLESTON – October 30, 2026 -- Brechtian, a fifteen-story flash fiction anthology by debut author Asher Rush, is now available online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Palmetto Publishing released the collection, which covers action, romance, and biblical tragedy.

Narrators interrupt themselves and argue with readers

Every story in the book is told by a narrator who breaks the fourth wall. The title nods to Bertolt Brecht's theatrical tradition of shattering the stage illusion, and Rush applies the same approach to the page.

San Francisco – October 30, 2026 -- If a holiday visit is your first full day in months with an aging parent, a memory care director says what you notice is worth writing down and bringing to a doctor.