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

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

Our youth is growing into misaligned versions of themselves and the culprit is right behind them: the schoolbag.

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.

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

Murray McCory, who founded JanSport while a student at UW and whose lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students, died Oct. 7 in Seattle.

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

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

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 ...