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A student at Henry Elementary School was arrested Thursday after a gun was found in their backpack, Stockton Unified School District officials said. The Stockton Unified School District Police ...

A student at a Stockton elementary school was arrested after a gun was found in their backpack, the Stockton Unified School District said. The SUSD Police Department took a student into custody at ...

A Brainerd High School student was arrested after a handgun was found in the student's backpack, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. School staff received a ...

A student at Westwood Middle School in Gainesville was arrested Tuesday after police said they found a loaded handgun in his backpack, according to a Gainesville Police Department social media post.

No adult with even vague ambitions of style would be caught dead with one. But backpacks have hitchhiked into greater acceptance. Young people are now opting for them over briefcases and tote bags.

(At my alma mater, one student actually ran an entire Instagram page dedicated to spotting totes across campus.) But as a proud backpack adult, I’m here to make the case for the college backpack.

But now, James’ company, Soma Bags, is providing a solution: backpacks equipped with solar panels that charge a reading light. What started as a small-scale project with some discarded cement ...

With this leather option on your back, we promise you'll never get mistaken for a student. This is the ideal backpack for work, with a leather exterior that's endlessly elegant. The padded ...

Now an organisation is using that energy to help children read after dark in Tanzania - by using their backpacks to power a reading light. And they're using solar power, that's gathered free from ...