HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) A YouTube dating coach and consultant is accused of a real estate investment scam.
Mikki Fox, also known as Michaela Pink, is charged with theft in Harris County. The county district attorney s office has identified six other possible victims.
Fox has a large following on YouTube, where she offers advice on makeup and dating. A woman, who wished to be identified as Marie, came across Fox on YouTube. She told ABC13 she was first interested in Fox s relationship advice. Advice on dating, that sort of thing. And my second consultation was just regarding real estate, so she did seem trustworthy, Marie said. At the time, I was going through a bad situation and I had no support system and she preyed on that.
PepperLou Gifts: A mother and daughter dream come true
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) PepperLou Gifts started as a dream by Valerie Cassady and her daughter Ellie.
They always wanted to open their own store, but it wasn t until Valerie needed a space for her interior decorating business, that PepperLou Gifts was born.
Valerie wanted to open the Memorial-area store to give Ellie a better future after she graduated high school. Valerie said, As a young adult with special needs, there aren t a lot of programs out there to make them feel a part of something big. And so we started PepperLou for Ellie.
On Saturday, it s going to be slow going on the West Loop.
Four main lanes are closed between Bellaire Boulevard and Fournace. They re scheduled to reopen at 5 p.m.
If you drive in the Huffman area, beware of a major closure that will affect your drive for several days.
All lanes of FM 2100, both northbound and southbound, are closed between FM 1960 and Old Atascocita Road.
The closure lasts from Friday at 1 a.m. until Tuesday at 5 a.m.
SAN FRANCISCO It s possible the amount of sleep you re getting and the stress you re under could impact your COVID vaccine, meaning the strength and durability of the vaccine may have more to do with you, your body, and your lifestyle than you expected.
UCSF professor of psychiatry, Elissa Epel, and a team of researchers are recruiting for a study to examine how stress, age, and sleep, affect the immune response with the COVID vaccine. What we know from the flu vaccine is that stress, particularly bereavement stress, caregiving stress, really major chronic stress, dampens the immune response, said Epel, who is working to find out if that holds true for the COVID vaccines.
Her tale of boom and bust begins with a little boy. It s interesting to watch stocks grow and watch them fall, said Jaydyn Carr, a fifth grader who made a 5,000% profit on stock in the video game retailer GameStop.
His mother bought him the stock as a Kwanzaa present before it rose in price so dramatically. One of the biggest things you re going see here is how everybody got swept up in this, Jarvis said.
They were swept up in the big increase that Wall Street hedge funds were betting would fall. In the parlance of the financial world, they were short selling GameStop.