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

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

Facing their first-ever election for school board, voters in Chicago on Tuesday delivered a decidedly mixed message, electing ...

Students at a Bedford County high school were evacuated and dismissed from classes early on Thursday after authorities ...

Customs and attitudes today are weird. I watched with open mouthed amazement as granddaughter KitKat got ready for school. First, she put her swimsuit into her school bag. This was followed by a ...

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

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.

"All the red flags ... were there," said Kenosha Police Chief Patrick Patton. "We narrowly missed a tragedy today." ...

A gun was found in a student's backpack at a Louisville school Wednesday morning. The gun was found at Fern Creek High School ...

A loaded gun was discovered in a student's backpack at Mt. Healthy Jr./Sr. High School Thursday, school officials said.

A 13-year-old is under investigation after he went to his former elementary school with a black bag and backpack in what appears to have been an intended school shooting.

A 13-year-old boy who had researched school shootings online was arrested hours after he tried to enter a Wisconsin ...