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According to new documents released in the Thanksgiving car crash that eventually brought golf prodigy Tiger Woods back down to earth, Woods’ wife handed ambulance personnel two bottles of pain medicine which she told them Woods took earlier in the day.

The paperwork, released by the Florida Highway Patrol to the Orlando Sentinel today, also shows that Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, tried to ride to the hospital in the ambulance with Woods.

The paramedics, however, barred her from entering, saying that the case was domestic violence-related.

The state troopers’ notes also intimates that the hospital where Woods was taken after he hit two curbs then a tree while pulling out of his driveway in Windermere, went all out to protect Woods’ reputation.

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Casey

For the second time since 2007, the Palm Beach area chapter of the Red Cross is losing its CEO after a brief tenure.

Larry Casey, the visible frontman of the disaster-responding charity, told Page2Live he’ll step down on April 9. He has been leading the non-profit’s branch, which reaches into the Treasure Coast and cuts across Florida to the west coast, for just 20 months.

Casey took the reins from J.B. Hunt, who was fired in 2008 because she made it a habit to take decisions without discussing them with the board.

About his departure, Casey said he is looking for a change in his career. And he’s taking in a teenage family member, with whom he plans to spend more time.

Privately, according to an insider, Casey had expressed frustration with the American Red Cross’ current drive to take more control of local chapters.

And then, Casey always seemed more at ease in one of his previous jobs, as longtime aide to former Republican U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw.

“It’s just the right time to go,” Casey said. “Hurricane season is still a few months away and the chapter will have time to find someone else.

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Beckham, last night in Manchester (Reuters)

To the rest of the world, L.A. Galaxy superstar David Beckham’s gesture Wednesday night didn’t mean much.

But in England, it was the equivalent of Becks flipping the bird at Palm Beacher Malcolm Glazer!

Heartthrob Beckham, who’s with AC Milan in Europe when U.S. soccer is off in winter, was lingering on the pitch after playing against his old Manchester United squad when a fan handed him a green-and-gold scarf.

Beckham put it around his neck.

And the Brit media went nuts.

Yep. Just of a scarf.

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Exline

Disgraced former West Palm Beach City Commissioner Jim Exline this week filed a lawsuit against a woman who caused a chain collision in Lake Worth last year, ultimately injuring him.

I’m told the woman’s insurance company, State Farm, wants to pay Exline $6,500 for the medical bills that resulted from the June crash. Exline’s bills are at least five times higher, and counting. So he sued.

Exline, 45, made news in 2007 when he resigned his seat and pleaded guilty to tax evasion. He was sent to a federal prison camp near Atlanta for 10 months.

Although he wouldn’t comment about the accident or the lawsuit, Exline, an urban planner by trade, says he has been struggling since he rejoined society in April 2008.

“There’s absolutely no planning going on out there,” he said today. “I’m just waiting it out, like a lot of people. I’m a planner. That’s what I do. I don’t know anything else.”

And he’s still nursing the injuries that occurred near downtown Lake Worth, when a Hyundai plowed into another car, which then hit Exline’s Jaguar.

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Wilson

Attorneys representing the mother of a recent college graduate who died after his car was struck by Wellington polo mogul John Goodman’s Bentley are launching their own investigation into the crash that killed her son.

Jack Scarola, a partner at the high-profile West Palm Beach law firm Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart and Shipley, said the firm is starting from scratch its own probe into the death of Scott Wilson, 23.

International Polo Club Palm Beach founder Goodman suffered minor injuries in the Feb. 12 accident. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and State Attorney are conducting a criminal investigation. They’re not expected to decide before May whether charges will be filed against Goodman.

Said Scarola: “We will independently and thoroughly investigate. It’s highly unlikely that there’ll be a single lead that we won’t follow.”

Scarola said the firm has been representing Wilson’ mom Lili in other matters. He said the firm’s involvement “could include civil action arising from the death.”

Goodman visited two parties before the crash, and authorities seized credit card receipts showing Goodman paid for 18 shots of booze less than an hour before he allegedly blew through a stop sign and struck Wilson. And Page2Live revealed Monday that fire rescue workers failed to find Wilson’s body in his car, which was partly submerged in a canal after the Bentley hit it.

Not just one, but four reality television shows based in South Florida could be polluting the airwaves by fall.

“I guess that makes us the reality TV capital of America,” said Miami-Dade County Film Commish Jeff Peel. “We’ll take it.”

The Real Housewives of Miami, a Bravo production that’s been on and off for months, is definitely back on, Page2Live has learned.

And if you like your boob-tube really trashy, then you’ll be happy to know that the new season of Jersey Shore — the MTV show starring yutes, I mean youths, who would’ve made great extras on The Sopranos — is going to be filmed in Miami Beach.

The cast of Jersey Shore

And then, the Kardashian sisters‘ Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami is well into production of its second season. And Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club is scheduled to kick off production of its new season in Miami next month.

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You nasty thing, Charlie Crist!

The guv went on Greta Van Susteren’s On The Record on Fox News Monday night wondering if his opponent for the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio, used the Republican party’s credit card to get his back waxed.

Yikes!

Crist is behind in the polls, but still!

Crist matter-of-factly threw that line at Greta while the two discussed the recent revelations that Rubio had used a party card for personal expenses. Check out the exchange, and vote in the poll below.

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The Fanjuls

Emilia Fanjul, the wife of Palm Beach sugar mogul Pepe Fanjul, told Page2Live today that the thief they allowed into their suite at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills “didn’t take much.”

The Fanjuls were on the Left Coast to attend the Oscars when a polite, well-groomed man they thought was a hotel worker weaseled his way into the suite Friday afternoon, saying he needed to repair the AC.

While the couple milled about their expansive suite, the man helped himself to their bling.

“At least, there was no violence, nobody was hurt, and very little taken,” Emilia said. “He went into our bedroom and he took what was on the bed. A gold chain that my great-grandmother gave me before we left Cuba and some pearl earrings.

“It was more sentimental than valuable. But the police asked me how much it was worth.”

She told them: 45 Gs.

Pepe Fanjul is, along with his brothers, one of the owners of the West Palm Beach-based Florida Crystals and one of the biggest landowners in the state.

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Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh is pulling an Alec Baldwin!

Ten years after the staunch Democrat star of 30 Rock swore he’d leave the country if George W. Bush won the White House, GOP leader Limbaugh said on his show Monday that he, too, would leave — if Prez. Barack Obama’s health care reform becomes law of the land!

Rush Limbaugh with galpal Kathryn Rogers Saturday at Mar-a-Lago

Limbaugh said on his show (WJNO-1290 AM) Monday that he’d hightail it outtahere if doctors were banned from seeing private patients under the new health care plan.

“If it passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I’m leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica,” Limbaugh said.

But like Baldwin, who never made good on his promise even after two terms of Bush, Rush seems hesitant, and clarified his statement in this e-mail to Page2Live this morning: “If U.S. doctors aren’t allowed by law to see patients in private practice outside the coming government health care monopoly, I will consider leaving the country for any major medical treatment.”

Costa Rica?

El Rushbo tells me that insurance companies are already bankrolling clinics in that Central American country in anticipation of the reform.

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John Goodman with actress Hillary Duff last year at a polo club function (Click on the photo for more on Goodman)

International Polo Club Palm Beach founder and polo team owner John Goodman may have passed out at the wheel of his Bentley on Feb. 12 before crashing into a Hyundai at a speed that could have reached 70 mph, a source familiar with the hush-hush investigation into the crash told Page2Live.

That’s the theory that crash investigators with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office are using as they piece together the events that led to the death of the Hyundai driver, 23-year-old fresh college graduate Scott Wilson, in rural Wellington.

The source asked to remain anonymous because authorities, who aren’t commenting, are trying to keep their work secret until they decide if they’ll bring charges against the 46-year-old multi-millionaire Goodman.

But I’m told PBSO sleuths believe Goodman passed out as the car traveled south on 120 Avenue South. The car gathered speed then overshot a right turn for a shortcut leading to his $4.5-million home. It blew through the stop sign at the corner of Lake Worth Road and crashed into Wilson’s Sonata, sending his car into a canal.

Even with the Bentley totaled, Goodman sustained only a broken wrist — indicating, the source said, that Goodman’s body was somewhat relaxed at the time of impact.

Goodman, who hired Miami attorney Roy Black, hasn’t been talking to investigators and has been living in Miami Beach hotels since the crash.

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