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

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

The girls first tackled the project as kindergartner Girl Scout Daisies, using funds from their cookie sales to purchase the items to make 10 birthday kits, packing the items insi ...

HAMAMATSU--An unusual collaboration between a newspaper delivery shop and an eyewear accessory company here led to the development of "randoseru" school backpacks that can be used as makeshift ...

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

The lives of school going children these days is so far removed from mine that kids ... girls were not considered particularly trustworthy. What am I saying. They were considered totally untrustworthy ...

At Robert Eagle Staff and Hamilton International middle schools students put their cellphones in a pouch at the start of the ...

Alyssa Church of Hays has earned the highest award in Girl Scouting— the Gold Award, and she will be recognized this weekend ...

Even though much of my job as a travel writer involves testing suitcases, I usually prefer to fly with a carry-on backpack when I have the choice. You just can’t beat the sense of freedom that ...

I have a very clear memory of making chocolate chip cookies on a spring day, timing it so the cookies came out of the oven ...

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 ...

The school gymnasium was filled with tables containing distinct colored coats of all different sizes. FedEx Cares is a a ...