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Here’s your look at News Leader 9’s recaps, top stories, and breaking news that will be talked about Wednesday.

Columbus is now considered a “No Kill” community when it relates to homeless animals. 

Ruth Metcalf’s family tells News Leader 9 they’re grateful she made it out alive. Metcalf, 70, is now recovering after being cut and held at knife-point at a parking garage in Uptown Columbus Monday morning.

Staff at the Horizon Diagnostic Clinic getting into the Halloween spirt Tuesday, dressing up and decorating the building.

Amazon will open a fourth warehouse and distribution hub in Georgia, creating more than 500 jobs.

It’s been 50 years since that deadly attack. It was September 1967, just after midnight, Edward Seibold went barging into this home on Gardner Drive. 

 Don’t mix your boos with booze this Halloween! If you on drinking Halloween night, AAA and Budweiser will be offering "Tow To Go" through six a.m. Wednesday morning.

Controversy at Point University after a student posts a picture online of herself with another student dressed in blackface for their Halloween costumes.

One safe alternative to traditional door-to-door trick or treating is the annual Ark in the Park hosted by Britt David Baptist Church in Columbus.

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – It’s Halloween and we want to see your trick-or-treat pictures!