Mississippi Contractor Charged with Fraud

Eds: APNewsNow. GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A Gulf Coast contractor has been freed on $10,000 bond after his arrest this week for home repair fraud. The attorney general's office says 48-year-old Anthony Scott Colson of Pass Christian allegedly entered into a contract to perform repairs to a Hurricane Katrina damaged home in Pass Christian. He allegedly received $35,000 but completed less than half of the work he was paid to do. Attorney General Jim Hood says Colson's arrest is the 83rd in the state for home repair fraud in the aftermath of... [read full story]