PAUK PLANS FOR PLENTY: Andy Pauk, senior VP and COO for Dierbergs Markets, has been appointed chairman of the 2010 Annual Catholic Appeal by Archbishop Robert J. Carlson.

The appeal’s goal this year is to raise $11.75 million, which goes to…

KISS ME, I’M IRISH!: St. Louis Sheriff Jim Murphy will be honored at tomorrow night’s Emerald Ball as the Irish Person of the Year.

Murphy was selected by the Ancient Order of Hibernians because of his long career in public service to…

BABY BELL: CBS News correspondent, former host of “Show Me St. Louis” and Miss America 1990, Debbye Turner Bell, had her first child, a girl, on Wednesday.

Turner Bell’s daughter, Lynlee Julia Bell, weighed in at 6 lbs, 5 oz and…

BUTTS AND BONES: Little did Joan Kiburz, creator of the iBones project at Central Catholic middle school on North Jefferson Avenue, know that her South Butt t-shirt was going to create a stir.The middle school students have been coining money…

WRITE ON: A couple of former Post-Dispatch scribes, Bill Lhotka and Harper Barnes, have turned out books that are back-to-back best book award winners from the Historical Society of St. Louis County.

Lhotka’s book, “St. Louis Crime Chronicles, the First 200…

HUDA NEWS: The rumor mill was churning over the weekend with reports that at least one local television station is reaching out to popular TV reporter Jasmine Huda.

Huda, 31, had been at KSDK-TV (Channel 5) since 2007, when the station…

Jasmine Huda

HUDA’S GONE: Jasmine Huda, popular reporter at KSDK-TV (Channel 5), will no longer be working at the station as of tomorrow, news director Mike Shipley said today.

“We loved her to death. She’s a great young talent,” Shipley said. “I can’t…

OHH-LA-LA: Paul “Pablo” Weiss and Chef Bobbi Wasabi are deep into a creative mission in Northern California looking for inspiration to help them open the new Pacific Grille in Weiss’ former Kitchen K space on Washington Ave.

The two were invited on Sunday…

MARKING THE CALENDARS: With Valentine’s events starting to pour in, we thought you might want to get this good cause on your calendars asap.

It’s the Usher Syndrome Foundation’s second annual Valentine’s Dance & Auction, which will start at 7 p.m.…

MANSION MAGIC: Cupid’s co-chairs, Gail Yobe and Elaine Spielberg, are conspiring to pluck some heartstrings on Valentine’s Eve with a soiree at Shelley Donaho’s Magic Chef Mansion.

The party on Feb. 13 is a benefit for Operation Food Search. Ameren is sponsoring the…