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NEW YORK - NFL great Lawrence Taylor looks like he needs a time out — to nap.

Taylor, a former New York Giants player, has been released on bond following his arrest in a Miami-area traffic accident.

Miami-Dade County jail records show that Taylor was charged Sunday with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, a second-degree misdemeanor. He was released on $500 bond later that night. It was not immediately clear if Taylor has an attorney.

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NEW YORK - Crimesider has obtained Leah Ignagni's mug shot, which was taken by Nashville police after she was arrested for three drug charges on Aug. 24, 2009, according to affidavits on the Nashville Criminal Court Clerk Web site.

Police say Ignagni was dating former NFL star Steve McNair, who was found dead with another lover, 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi, who they believe killed the married quarterback then herself due to mounting financial pressure and the recent discovery that she wasn't the only one sleeping with McNair.

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NEW YORK - Crimesider has just unearthed arrest records for Leah Ignagni, murdered NFL star Steve McNair's other-other-woman.

Igagni, 25, was arrested in August on three drug charges, two of which are felonies, after police conducted a sting operation and executed a search warrant on her home.

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NEW YORK - New exclusive photos of Leah Ignagni, NFL great Steve McNair's other-other-woman, have surfaced and only Crimesider has them.

Ignagni has been named by Nashville authorities as the second woman McNair was having an affair with in the time leading up to his death on July 4, 2009. McNair was married.

According to her MySpace page, which has since been erased, Ignagni is 25-years-old.

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NEW YORK - Last night Nashville police released the name of Leah Ignagni, slain former NFL great Steve McNair's possible second girlfriend.

Sahel Kazemi, the woman who had been carrying on a relationship with McNair, allegedly shot and killed McNair and then herself on July 4, 2009. Ignagni told police that a woman in the same model car that Kazemi owned had been following her a few weeks prior to McNair's murder, according to a revised police case summary released Monday, Oct. 19.

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NEW YORK - CBS News' Crimesider has obtained exclusive access to never-before-seen photos and pictures of Sahel Kazemi, girlfriend of murdered ex-NFL star Steve McNair.

Police say Kazemi shot and killed McNair and then herself in McNair's Nashville apartment July 4. Open and shut. However, an inconclusive gun-shot residue test, an unclear time-line and new text-message conversations, tell a complicated story that CBS News Investigative Unit has worked to unravel.

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NEW YORK - Sahel Kazemi, a sexy young waitress, shot her boyfriend, NFL star Steve McNair, four times, killing him, and then turned the gun on herself, Nashville police say.

But is that the full story? How exactly did a waitress, who had never owned a firearm, suddenly wind up with a loaded, black-market 9mm pistol just one day before the killing?

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NEW YORK - On Monday, CBS News will release surprising new revelations in the death of NFL star Steve McNair and his lover Sahel Kazemi.

Both were found shot to death in McNair’s Nashville apartment on July 4. The police ruled it a murder-suicide and pinned Kazemi as the shooter, but new information, including never before seen photos and video unearthed by CBS News, raises serious questions about the claims that Kazemi was suicidal and in financial trouble.

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NEW YORK - He was once a canine's worst nightmare.

But does reinstated NFL star Michael Vick, convicted for involvement in a dog fighting ring, have a new deal with Nike, or not?

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - NFL star Steve McNair, who died in a murder-suicide with his mistress at a Nashville condo, helped pay for a different apartment occupied by another woman, court and utility records show.

Authorities said McNair was shot by 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi on July 4 before she shot herself. Friends said Kazemi suspected McNair was having a second affair with another young woman. McNair was also married.

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