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

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

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 North Carolina. "They need to know they are loved and ...

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

On Wednesday, employees of Fiore Toyota in Hollidaysburg gathered in the showroom to present checks to six local backpack programs. The backpack programs that received assistance are located in the ...

Take the school backpack, for example ... Once limited to the aristocracy, by the 1960s, college had become affordable and viable for the millions of Baby Boomers who enrolled in large numbers.

Jordan James Tucker, 21, was arrested yesterday and charged with possession of a firearm on school grounds after officers ...

Students at Washington Community High School are being asked not to bring backpacks to school the rest of the week after possible risk to student safety was made known to school and police officials.