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 ...

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

It is advised that a child’s backpack should weigh not more than 15% of the child’s body weight. Delhi government in 2018 had made laws regulating weights of the school bags to minimize the ...

PHOTO PROVIDED The Blessings in a Backpack program at Covenant United Methodist Church, 44 W. Main St., Lock Haven, provides ...

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

On Thursday, you couldn't miss the illuminated flood warning sign. A team of people working rapidly filled sand bags, ...

Though backpack bans are rare ... The immense pressure to keep kids safe has led some school officials to keep ratcheting up security protocols, said Kenneth Trump, a school safety expert ...

The typical sea of backpacks, sweatshirts and sleepy eyes poured into Talley Middle School around 8 a.m. in late October ... Several Talley teachers felt students can "behave like kids again" and ...

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

A large police presence was reported at Roosevelt Elementary School in Kenosha following reports of a suspicious person on campus. According to the Kenosha Police Department, the person is no longer ...

About once a month, Met Gallagher drops off bags in the Saratoga Elementary basement. It’s filled with multiple sizes of underwear and pants in case of emergencies.

Welcome to the new frontier of children’s parties, where the only thing inflated more than the balloons are the blockbuster ...