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

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).

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

Over the past couple years there has been an increasing interest in home-grown brands hand-sewing Dyneema fabric backpacks, such as Apocalypse, Illumination Equipment, and Horizon Designs. Siegel, ...

Top row from the left: shoes from the spring/summer 2025 runways of Fendi and Louis Vuitton. Bottom row from the left: shoes ...

The Hype kids backpack and streetwear label has been acquired by Apparel Brands. Based in Manchester and backed by True ...

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 ...

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

Back in high school during the late ‘90s, nearly every teenage girl was crushing hard for a Kate Spade mini satin backpack. I ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 13-year-old is under investigation after he went to his former elementary school in Kenosha with a black bag and backpack that appears to have been a threat. This is a situation ...

In an email to parents, principal Dr. Rebecca Nicolas said the gun was found through the school's weapon detection system. The student who had the gun in their backpack was arrested and will be ...

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 ...