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The Grammy award-winning group Pentatonix released its sixth Christmas album in late October. The album was called “Holidays Around The World.”

The four-time Grammy award-winning singer is coming to the Peoria area as part of his "THE SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR."

In his final years, late actor Dustin Diamond spent a decent amount of time in Peoria. That included temporary residence in a local apartment complex. Whether he or his family were aware of it, the "Saved by the Bell" star also forged a posthumous Peoria connection. Diamond died Feb. 1 in Florida. He was best known for his portrayal of Samuel "Screech" Powers on "Saved by the Bell." The popular TV show was a hit in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Permutations of it have been produced ever since...

It was an unlikely situation, this friendship between Dan Block and Dustin Diamond. Block is a Rockford-area resident, a married father of four who owns a firm that specializes in low-cost automobile insurance. Diamond was an actor of national note, mostly for his portrayal of Samuel "Screech" Powers in the 1980s-90s teen-geared television series "Saved by the Bell." More unlikely, perhaps, was that their friendship fortified in Peoria. Block and Diamond once shared a temporary residence while ...

PEORIA — It was an unlikely situation, this friendship between Dan Block and Dustin Diamond. Block is a Rockford-area resident, a married father of four who owns a firm that specializes in low-cost automobile insurance. Diamond was an actor of national note, mostly for his portrayal of Samuel "Screech" Powers in the 1980s-90s teen-geared television series "Saved by the Bell." More unlikely, perhaps, was that their friendship fortified in Peoria, where both men once shared a temporary residenc...

For days, Peoria awaited a winter wallop. When it hit, the storm pounded the town with a remarkable blinding of whirling snow and swirling winds, accented by the eerily odd crackle of lightning. The storm of the first two days of February 2011 — a monstrous marvel infamously dubbed Snowmageddon ‘11 — left central Illinois overwhelmed in white and exhausted from shoveling. Indeed, in the blasting blizzards wake, a screaming Journal Star headline succinctly summed up the snowy, blowy impa...