The store displays were picked over by the time Mary Lucca went school supply shopping for the first time. It was nearly impossible to find the brand of crayons called for on the list and ...

Aurora policemen are known the world over for their ability to turn crime prevention into a joy ride through Wyoming. Now students can share in the fun of erasing small mistakes with oversized Aurora ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: March 30th, 1858, 156 years ago today . . . the day a Philadelphia inventor made his mark. For that was the day Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil ...

It's easy to forget that your school supplies are fancy pieces of technology. Especially in a world with laptops, tablets and smartphones. Let's take a look back at the history behind the "old school" ...

Philadelphia inventor Hymen L. Lipman rushed heroically to the aid of mistake-prone schoolchildren, draftsmen and artists everywhere when he secured the patent for the pencil with eraser on this day ...