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.

Facing their first-ever election for school board, voters in Chicago on Tuesday delivered a decidedly mixed message, electing ...

Students at a Bedford County high school were evacuated and dismissed from classes early on Thursday after authorities ...

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

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.

"All the red flags ... were there," said Kenosha Police Chief Patrick Patton. "We narrowly missed a tragedy today." ...

A gun was found in a student's backpack at a Louisville school Wednesday morning. The gun was found at Fern Creek High School ...

A 13-year-old is under investigation after he went to his former elementary school with a black bag and backpack in what appears to have been an intended school shooting.

A 13-year-old boy who had researched school shootings online was arrested hours after he tried to enter a Wisconsin ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A gun was found in a student's backpack at Fern Creek High School on Wednesday morning. In an email ...

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