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A Vietnamese immigrant and billionaire has donated $5 million to help Houston recover from Tropical Storm Harvey. Kieu Hoang, the founder of California-based Rare Antibody Antigen Supply, announced the donation at a Monday news conference with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Turner said the donation would help transition Houston's most vulnerable populations - seniors, people with special needs and low-income communities, he said - into more permanent housing. The mayor said it would cost about $9 million to assist the roughly 1,200 taking refuge at the George R. Brown Convention Center alone, an effort for which he's asked the American Red...

Houston billionaire Tillman Fertitta has reached agreement to purchase the Houston Rockets from Leslie Alexander. The $2.2 billion sale price to break the NBA record sale of $2 billion from when the Clippers were sold to Steve Ballmer, according to the person familiar with the terms of the deal. "I am truly honored to have been chosen as the next owner of the Houston Rockets," Fertitta said in a statement. "This is a life-long dream come true." "Leslie Alexander has been one of the best owners in all of sports, and I thank him immensely for this opportunity. He has...

George Strait made an interesting announcement on Twitter today: Apparently, he is working on relief efforts with the country music community at large. He didn’t elaborate on what exactly those efforts entailed, but we might smell a benefit concert brewing.  We are working on putting together relief efforts with the whole country music community. – GS — George Strait (@GeorgeStrait) August 29, 2017     Strait is originally from the Lone Star State and lives there. He owns a home in Rockport, where Hurricane Harvey first made landfall over the weekend. He also mentioned that the hurricane personally affected some of his family...

Upon posting a job opening for “Planetary Protection Officer,” NASA space agency has received countless job applications, but none as original and adorable as the one by Jack Davis, a 9-year-old with all the right qualifications to be a “Guardian of the Galaxy.” “I have seen almost all the space and alien movies I can see,” Jack explained in his letter. “I’m great at video games. I am young, so I can learn to think like an Alien.” Jack’s letter went viral after a family friend posted it on Reddit, and when it eventually reached the space agency, NASA’s director of planetary...

What is being billed as the world's largest bounce house is coming to Houston later this year. Big Bounce America will be bringing its epic-sized bounce house to the area during Halloween weekend as a part of a swing through the state of Texas, according to the attraction's official website.   The bounce house is three stories tall and 10,000 square feet in size. It's got everything, even obstacle courses, a ball pit, and a dance floor. The only thing that patrons need to bring is enough energy to keep bouncing.  Here's hoping Houston's historically finicky weather plays ball.   Via Houston Chron See...