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

For today’s kids, it must be difficult to imagine a time before backpacks. They’re ubiquitous in classrooms and on school buses around the country and have been for decades. But as late as the 1960s, ...

The president of JanSport, one of the nation’s most recognizable names in backpacks, died Saturday after crashing his car into a tree east of the Danville city limits. Michael Corvino, 46, of Danville ...

Skip Yowell, a Kansas boy and avowed hippie who made it to Mt. Everest, co-founded the JanSport company and sold backpacks by the millions, has died. He was 69. Yowell had lung cancer, his sister ...

2007-07-15 15:33:00 PDT DANVILLE-- Michael Corvino, president of the JanSport backpack brand, was killed Saturday in a solo car crash near his home in Danville. Corvino, 46, was driving on Creekview ...