MAN SPENDS 35 YEARS IN JAIL FOR $50 THEFT

At 22, Alvin Kennard was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. His crime? Stealing $50.75 from a bakery in 1983. Now 58, Kennard is coming home after spending more than 35 years — nearly his entire adult life — behind bars. On Wednesday, when an Alabama judge ordered that he be released from prison, more than a dozen friends and family members who had gathered