Murray McCory, JanSport co-founder and modern day backpack creator, has died at 80. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his then-future wife and later developed a way to make smaller, softer ...

He brought lightweight packs to millions of students and transformed the way they carried their textbooks to school.

Leo E. Solomon-Plains Elementary School announced a donation of 204 clear backpacks, which were distributed to students at ...

"I think it feels amazing," Kristin Rinker said about delivering the backpacks to staff at Old Fort Elementary in western ...

In rural northeast Louisiana, the leaders of a small school district took a drastic step this week in response to an eruption ...

Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.

HAMAMATSU--An unusual collaboration between a newspaper delivery shop and an eyewear accessory company here led to the development of "randoseru" school backpacks that can be used as makeshift ...

LUS Fiber and Love Our Schools collaborated to donate 100 backpacks filled with school supplies to Alice Boucher Elementary.

Several replica guns have been recovered from the home of a 13-year-old who allegedly planned to scare students at an ...

Reed Marutiak had the weight of the world on his shoulders. It’s a lot to carry for a Hartwood Elementary fourth grader in ...

The Kenosha Police Department said just after 9 a.m. Thursday, a suspicious boy walked into a secured area in the school with a backpack. When the boy was approached by a school staff member, he ...