Murray McCory, a free-spirited outdoorsman who co-founded the rugged gear and pack company JanSport, designed a widely ...

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

As those obituaries recount, it was one of JanSport’s hiking backpacks, with a few key modifications, that ultimately became a required accessory for nearly every student (and for a lot of ...

JanSport backpacks grew out of the heady, creative days of the 1960s and ’70s counterculture in the Pacific Northwest. McCory, who until the early 1980s had the surname Pletz, was a student at ...

came up with Jansport in the sixties as a student at the University of Washington after winning first place in a national competition sponsored by aluminum producer Alcoa. His winning design, shown ...

During the investigation, police found a gun in the student's backpack - as well as a switchblade and bullets in their pocket. The student was taken to the Elkhart County Juvenile Detention Center.

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 ...

The student who had the gun in their backpack was arrested and will be charged, according to Nicolas. "All of our students, staff, and visitors walk through these systems every day as part of our ...

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).