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

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

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.

First, she put her swimsuit into her school bag. This was followed by a slightly damp towel plus an extra shirt. A board game and a cassette were flung in after all this. “Haven’t you forgotten ...

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.

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 ...

A 13-year-old boy who had researched school shootings online was arrested hours after he tried to enter a Wisconsin elementary school with suspicious bags, police said.

Several replica guns have been recovered from the home of a 13-year-old who allegedly planned to scare students at an ...