Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law. And they ...

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

Wagoner Public Schools (WPS) said a firearm was recovered from a student's backpack on Thursday at Wagoner Middle School.The district said the principal receiv ...

WAGONER, Okla. — Wagoner Public Schools (WPS) said a gun was found in a Wagoner Middle School student's backpack on Thursday.

In rural northeast Louisiana, the leaders of a small school district took a drastic step this week in response to an eruption ...

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

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Park Hill School District revealed that today, November 13, a firearm was found in a student’s ...

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.

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).

LUS Fiber and Love Our Schools collaborated to donate 100 backpacks filled with school supplies to Alice Boucher Elementary.