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

Every teen and college woman needs a good school backpack that ... of 290,000 parents what backpacks their teens love and then did our research into their most popular answers. While we focused on ...

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

I struggle to conceive of what a school campus would even look like without backpacks. I still have every JanSport I ever owned, because they hold up so well that I never had the heart to throw ...

After the death of Murray McCory, a founder of the outdoors equipment company JanSport, readers recalled how their backpacks served them on life’s journeys. By Amisha Padnani Amisha Padnani is ...

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.

Police responded to the school shortly after 2 p.m. to investigate the threat and said they located a backpack in the boy's bathroom. Nothing of significance was in the bag. The girl was charged ...

Murray Pletz’s winning design. Illustration courtesy Hippie, Inc. Traditional hiking backpacks at the time featured one-size-fits-all wooden frames. McCory founded JanSport with his soon-to-be-wife, ...

McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his then-future wife and later developed a way to make smaller, softer backpacks for students. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.

Staff at a Kenosha, Wisconsin, school are being hailed as heroes Thursday for stopping a “suspicious” 13-year-old boy from ...