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Former WPBF-Channel 25 primetime anchorwoman Lisa Hayward was nabbed by Broward County Sheriff’s deputies Wednesday night after she crashed her car in Pompano Beach. She allegedly had a blood alcohol content of more than twice the legal limit.

Hayward, 39, the wife of Miami’s WSVN-Channel 7 reporter Derek Hayward, suffered minor injuries, a burn to her left forearm when the airbag in her 2003 Honda deployed. No one else was in the car and no other vehicle was hit.

Hayward, now an anchor on the morning show of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel’s television station, WSFL, was charged with DUI and failure to use due care after she blew a .17 on a Breathalizer test. The legal limit in Florida is 0.08.

The Coconut Creek resident spent the night in jail, missed her TV gig this morning and finally paid her $2,500-bond about noon today.

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Lemoine

Judge hopeful Ken Lemoine’s history as a West Palm Beach Police officer is a colorful one.

His personnel file — he rode the thin blue line from 1986 to 1993, before he became a lawyer — is stuffed with incident reports that include joyriding on a city-owned forklift and shooting himself in the leg.

“I also received a police combat cross for a fire fight,” Lemoine said, “and letters from members of the public saying how good of a job I was doing. I once was officer-of-the quarter. Nobody’s talking about how I would chase the bad guys in bad parts of the city in the middle of the night.”

When it comes to the negatives, however, the 48-year-old dismisses them as “20-year-old things.”

“Frankly, I don’t even remember some of these,” he said.

According to city archives, Lemoine once described himself as “bored” while working the night shift at the old West Palm Beach Auditorium. So he took a forklift on a joyride. Of course, he crashed and damaged it.

“He got on the lift,” reads the incident report, “and was running it up and down when it hit the cement overhang. Officer Lemoine knows it was wrong . . . (and he received) a copy of the bill for the repairs.”

Cost him $313.50!

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Too much of a good time at the Rum Shack?

The owner of the popular Lake Worth watering hole was pinched for DUI and hit-and-run early Wednesday.

Kevin Knight, 43, a former cruise ship bartender whose signature drink is the 4-liquor Drunken Monkey, spent most of yesterday in the county slammer after a sheriff’s deputy stopped him about 1 a.m.

According to the arrest report, Knight was at the wheel of a Jeep on 17th Avenue North in Lake Worth when he swerved into the deputy’s lane, nearly crashing into him. According to the report, Knight swerved to avoid three men walking on the side of road but hit one of them. The deputy reported seeing the man fall. The unidentified passerby suffered scrapes and bruises.

The PBSO deputy, meanwhile, stopped Knight and described him as “slow in speech.” Knight admitted to having had “a couple” but said he didn’t know he hit someone.

– With Eliot Kleinberg, The Palm Beach Post

Among the 31,191 comments posted on Page2Live so far, some stand out by their laugh-out-loud humor, wry wit, clever reasoning, bald-faced meanness or abysmal stupidity. Here are five from the past few days that caught my attention. You vote and I’ll print the most popular one in my column in The Palm Beach Post:

1. “In these times of want and woe, and a tumultuous sea of change for everyone in this world, it is good to see that nothing ever changes at the PBSO.” (by Mike Katz, commenting on PBSO forks over half a mil)

2. “I wish people would stop making comments saying Tori has a face like a ‘horse.’ No one deserves that!! No wonder she has low self esteem.” (by Sara, commenting on 90210 star Tori Spelling hawking books in SoFla)

3. “I would like to thank those who took time to comment. For those who don’t like me, I’m sorry, but when you’ve lived a great portion of your life in a fish bowl, there will be times people just won’t agree with you . . . I’m sorry that someone might feel I’m egotistical, but I promise you I’m much less stuck on myself than many people in my business . . . I promise you I was without fault in any way, shape or form. I was verbally abused and threatened, and friends stepped in to protect me from what they percieved to be a physical threat.” (by Bob Nichols, commenting on Former TV anchor Bob Nichols in golf club fight)

4. “You mean to say that there wasn’t another candidate for this position??? One without any question marks about the use of school funds? PLEEEEASE!!!! I’m sure there are other qualified educators looking for a job.” (by wonder, commenting on Controversial ex-school principal Texas-bound)

5. “Dara, you are an amazing athlete, you look great! We know you look great. Pulling up your top in public (often) to promote a fitness book . . . getting old. We live in Palm Beach, we can tell you’re ripped with your shirt on. That’s all.” (by Susan, commenting on Olympic medals? Who cares? Looks at the abs on Dara Torres)

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(Damon Higgins/The Palm Beach Post)

Some ungrateful townies defaced the Palm Beach Atlantic University’s billboard downtown West Palm Beach that seems to be selling the beach as much as education! Sometime over the weekend, someone who’s probably aware that it costs about $20,000 per semester to attend the Christian school hand-wrote: “Daddy’s $ can’t buy u this wave!” A university spokeswoman says campus security is looking into the act of vandalism, and the sign should be cleaned up soon.

Maxwell

Have Palm Beach socialite Gertrude Maxwell’s finances gone to the dogs?

The 99-year-old millionaire founder of Save a Pet is the target of two lawsuits filed over the past few weeks alleging she’s not paying her debts!

What’s more, SunTrust Bank is foreclosing on five homes worth a total of about $2 million that Maxwell bought as investment.

The first lawsuit, brought by L&L Construction Co. of Palm Beach, alleges that the 1911 baby, a late-night TV fixture with her ads to save abandoned dogs and pets, hasn’t paid $50,000 she owes for roof repair on her beachfront mansion.

“When she finally did send a check,” said L&L’s lawyer, Ken Scherer, “it bounced. Since it bounced, we’re going after three times the damages.”

Is Maxwell running out of dough — six years after she reverse-mortgaged her mansion for $24 million?

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Gordon, last year, asking a resident to help solve a murder (The Palm Beach Post)

Turmoil at the Riviera Beach Police Department!

Seven-year patrolman Nathan Gordon was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on administrative leave as Internal Affairs unravels his web of personal relationships with violent drug dealers.

And I hear that what the IA sleuths have found so far is about to give the department yet another serving of bad publicity.

A source privy to parts of the report tells me the allegations against Gordon include that he gave the home addresses of fellow officers to drug gang enforcers unhappy with police activity.

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Page2Live pap Michael Storms ran into model Lauren Benoit and her ex, That ’70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama, in Miami Beach the other day. No need to explain why Storms concentrated on photographing Benoit instead of Valderrama. Click here or on the picture for much, much more of Benoit.

Diddy, Saturday night at the Marlins game (Click on the photo for more celebs in SoFla)

With average attendance in the Major League Baseball’s basement, the Florida Marlins have been bringing an extra ooomph in the entertainment value of a Saturday night at the ball park with concerts and fireworks. So, the fish had rapper and music mogul Sean Diddy Combs do his thang on stage after losing to the Atlanta Braves Saturday. Well, the seats with butts in them were still pretty scarce, but Combs did rock the joint! (Click here for pictures of the show and other celebs in SoFla)

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Masilotti (Click on the photo for more of the Page2Live hall of shame)

How time flies!

Disgraced former Palm Beach County Commission Chair Tony Masilotti — who pleaded guilty of using his elected office to work on crooked real estate deals that made his family millions — is about to be sprung from the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami.

Masilotti, 55, was sent away for five years after pleading guilty to a corruption-related charge. He was scheduled to be at the low-security camp until Christmas 2011.

Instead, he’ll be in a halfway house, probably at the Salvation Army in West Palm Beach, within the next three weeks.

“I expect he’ll be in West Palm Beach in August,” said Masilotti’s lawyer, Barry Witlin. “He did undergo drug treatment, which gave him quite a bit of time off his sentence.”

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