Dorchester man held in 2006 slaying

A Dorchester man was ordered held without bail at his arraignment yesterday in Brockton Superior Court in the 2006 slaying of 34-year-old Nelson Pina in Brockton, Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz announced. Kenston Scott, 24, was arrested Friday during a traffic stop in Dorchester when it was discovered that he had an outstanding warrant on a murder charge. On Nov. 17, 2006, Brockton police responded to Pina's home on Plain Street for a report of shots fired and found the fatally wounded Pina in his doorway, officials said. Scott is due back in court Sept. 5 for a pretrial conference.

SOMERVILLE

The Somerville Arts Council called yesterday for artists to help to redecorate the Davis Square MBTA station with new large community art panels. About nine of the art panels that were installed in 1984, when the station opened, will be replaced. Submissions are due by Sept. 14. and will be reviewed by a jury of representatives from the Somerville Arts Council, Tufts University, and the MBTA. The children's art throughout the station and sculptures will remain intact.

WELLESLEY

A woman was flown to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston yesterday after the car in which she rode was involved in a two-car accident that snarled rush-hour traffic on southbound Interstate 95, State Police said. The woman, whose name was withheld, was a passenger in a Mazda station wagon whose driver lost control, swerved left across two lanes and struck a GMC van in the left lane about 2:40 p.m., police said. The Mazda's driver, Ladir P. Oliveira, 52, of Malden, was taken to Lahey Clinic in Burlington with minor injuries, while the driver of the van, Joseph A. Antonellis and passenger Carol M. Antonellis, both of Bourne, were uninjured. Oliveira and her passenger were wearing seat belts, police said.

ENFIELD, Conn.

A judge set bond at $7.5 million yesterday for the accused ringleader of a 2003 murder-for-hire plot who was extradited from Italy last week to face charges. Benedetto Cipriani, 51, formerly of Meriden, faces three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of three people at a Windsor Locks auto body shop in 2003, police and prosecutors said. (AP)

PROVIDENCE

The longtime chairman of the Roger Williams University board whose name is on the only law school in Rhode Island admitted yesterday to using a racial epithet to refer to blacks during a board meeting, saying it "kind of slipped out." "I apologized for that," Ralph Papitto said in an interview on WPRO-AM. "What else can I do? Kill myself?" Papitto admitted he used the slur at a May meeting of the school's Board of Trustees while discussing the difficulty of finding blacks and other minorities to serve on the 16-member board, which at the time included 14 white men, two women, and no members of minority groups. Papitto, 80, stepped down this month after serving nearly 40 years on the board. (AP)

WARWICK, R.I.

The Rhode Island Lottery wants to add keno machines to T.F. Green Airport, where travelers already have access to Powerball and scratch-ticket kiosks. Lottery officials say that putting keno machines in airport shops and restaurants would help the state raise revenue. But airport board members have not decided whether to approve the idea. (AP)

BINGHAM, Maine

Hundreds of people silently lined the main street as a hearse carried a soldier killed in Iraq to his hometown for memorial services today. Army Private Jason Dore, 25, died July 8 of injuries from a roadside bomb, the third soldier from Maine to die in a month in Iraq. He was eight months into his first tour of duty there when he was injured while on patrol in a Humvee. After his coffin arrived at Augusta State Airport Sunday, a mile-long column of motorcycles and cars escorted the hearse the 65 miles to Bingham, a town of about 1,000 people, where windows were decorated with red, white, and blue paper cutouts of Dore's name. (AP)