Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

Every teen and college woman needs a good school backpack that ... of 290,000 parents what backpacks their teens love and then did our research into their most popular answers. While we focused on ...

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

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

Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students ...

But JanSport became better known for its school backpacks than its alpine gear. The company was widely credited with helping ...

Police responded to the school shortly after 2 p.m. to investigate the threat and said they located a backpack in the boy's bathroom. Nothing of significance was in the bag. The girl was charged ...

Murray Pletz’s winning design. Illustration courtesy Hippie, Inc. Traditional hiking backpacks at the time featured one-size-fits-all wooden frames. McCory founded JanSport with his soon-to-be-wife, ...

Staff at a Kenosha, Wisconsin, school are being hailed as heroes Thursday for stopping a “suspicious” 13-year-old boy from ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Students are less distracted and more engaged in learning at a West Michigan high school thanks to a bag. Northview High School, in a suburb of Grand Rapids, has implemented ...