Murray McCory, a free-spirited outdoorsman who co-founded the rugged gear and pack company JanSport, designed a widely ...

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.

JanSport backpacks grew out of the heady, creative days of the 1960s and ’70s counterculture in the Pacific Northwest. McCory, who until the early 1980s had the surname Pletz, was a student at ...

came up with Jansport in the sixties as a student at the University of Washington after winning first place in a national competition sponsored by aluminum producer Alcoa. His winning design, shown ...

A gun was found in a student's backpack at a Louisville school Wednesday morning.The gun was found at Fern Creek High School through its weapons detection system, according to a letter sent to ...

Harold and the Purple Crayon—a summer family movie bust starring Zachary Levi—has found a big audience on Netflix. A big screen adaptation of Crockett Johnson’s 1955 classic children’s ...