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

A family is looking for a missing 17-year-old girl who was last seen in east Bakersfield.Family said Chasity Gomez, or also ...

Aaliyah was reported to have taken her black Jansport branded backpack with her," the ... The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said both girls did not say where they were going.

While we focused on styles that teen girls and college women love ... You know they never wear out if your teen (or you!) has ever owned a JanSport backpack. They’ve been making their classic backpack ...

After the death of Murray McCory, a founder of the outdoors equipment company JanSport, readers recalled how their backpacks served them on life’s journeys. By Amisha Padnani Amisha Padnani is ...

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

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...