2. Danny Ferry, former Hawks president and general manager, made racially insensitive remarks about free-agent target Luol Deng, but letters recently cleared him of racial bias. Ferry responded, saying he feels "relieved" after the report was released.

3. Auto insurance increases in 2014 were a throwback to the 1980s, when auto premiums were soaring 10 percent or more a year and rising faster than almost anywhere else in the U.S.

4. The last time people gathered inside "Mother" Emanuel A.M.E. Church, a gunman tried to break its spirit and cause a race war by brutally murdering nine of her members, including the pastor Clementa Pinckney. That changed on Sunday, when the church reopened.

5. When Ralph Hudgens decided to run for insurance commissioner in 2010, many in the industry were behind him.

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