Medley News

Walk through the modern new document depository in Medley, Fla., and one thing becomes clear: Paper can be a hard habit to break.

Operation manager Armando Sanchez pulls files at the Recall storage facility in Medley, Fla.

Police are looking for several suspects who assaulted a Medley officer before giving chase and crashing into a car full of children.

Operation Manager Armando Sanchez surveys the Recall storage facility in Medley, Fla., where 10 million files and 500 million pieces of paper are stored --Walk through the modern new document depository in Medley, Fla., and one thing becomes clear: Paper can be a hard habit to break.

Operation manager Armando Sanchez pulls files at the Recall storage facility in Medley, Florida, on Tuesday, April 24, 2012.

Being only 23 years old and on the the force for a mere 21 months, one might have thought that Louis Ponce had no shot when it came down to the Medley Police Department's annual Officer of the Year Award.

Walk through the modern new document depository in Medley, Fla., and one thing becomes clear: Paper can be a hard habit to break.

Dogs, and the humans who love them, "occupied" Tropical Park and rallied for the right to vote on a Pets' Trust, an initiative to fund animal care and services in Miami-Dade. All services for dogs and cats have resumed at the Miami-Dade County animal shelter, which closed in early January because of a distemper outbreak that killed 51 dogs.

I already had the canoe. I bought it off a guy named Del in Hollywood for $150. His ad on Craigslist said he wanted $300. But when I went to his house, he dropped the price.

A Medley warehouse offers to digitize corporate paperwork, but files keep coming - stacked in dozens of 30-foot-high rows that are as long as two football fields.