Religious and Free: After five days in jail for contempt of court, Rowan County, KY Clerk Kim Davis plans to return to the office later this week. She was joined in her moment of freedom by Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

U.S. District Judge David Bunning freed Davis because her deputy clerks were issuing the same-sex marriage licenses that she had refused to grant on religious grounds. The judge said if she interfered with the issuing of marriage licenses she’d be sent back to jail.

Davis told a cheering crowd of supporters, “I just want to give God the glory. His people have rallied, and you are a strong people.”

Nation: The City of Baltimore has reached a $6.4 million settlement with the family of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal injury suffered in police custody in April. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the settlement “avoids costly and protracted litigation that would only make it more difficult for our city to heal and potentially cost taxpayers many millions more in damages.” Criminal charges are being pressed against six Baltimore cops who had Gray in custody inside a police van.

>The Chief executive of United Airlines and two other executives resigned yesterday in the midst of a federal investigation into whether the airline had improperly traded favors with the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The feds are looking into whether the airline reinstated money-losing flights to the airport near the South Carolina vacation home of authority chairman, David Samson, in exchange for improvements at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Hillary Mail: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has apologized for using a private email account while she was secretary of state. “That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” she told ABC’s David Muir. That’s not likely to lay the issue to rest. The big question is whether she knowingly sent classified material over a non-secure email server.

The Lion King: The Minnesota dentist who stirred international outrage killing the popular Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe returned to work yesterday amid a gaggle of protesters and news reporters. Walter Palmer told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “My staff and my patients support me, and they want me back. That’s why I’m back.”

One man shouted, “We need to thank him for waking us up,” and a protest sign read, “Roar for Cecil.”

The Sports Page: Serena Williams lost one set to her older sister Venus last night in the US Open to continue playing for the Grand Slam of tennis. The sets were 6-2, 1-6, 6-3. The sisters have played each other 27 times now; 14 in Grand Slam events and eight in Grand Slam finals.

Serena, 33, is just two tournament wins from joining Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court and Steffi Graf as the only women to win all four major singles titles in a season.

The Bad Sports Page: Two Texas high school football defensive backs are under criminal investigation after they intentionally ran into a back judge they thought had made a bad call. On video the first player sprints forward and levels the judge from behind before the second player plows into him helmet first in a technique known as “spearing.”

Both players from John Jay High School in San Antonio were thrown off the football team and suspended from school.

The video of the incident has had millions of viewings on the Internet and the police are trying to determine whether the dirty hit amounts to a crime.

The Obit Page: Brad Anderson, the cartoonist who drew “Marmaduke,” the syndicated comic about a mischievous Great Dane, has died at age 91. Marmaduke was created in 1954 and Anderson said it had to be a big dog. “I wanted a dog that doesn’t know it’s a big dog, because big dogs don’t realize how large they are. They want to sit in your lap.”

Letters Not to the Editor: Our reader Luciano Guerriero in New York says on Facebook that, “Trump claiming that attending his military prep school equals military service is like me claiming that playing high school football makes me a New York Giant.”

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