CLEVELAND, Ohio — June 12 is National Jerky Day, which seemed like the perfect excuse to tear into a few bags of beef jerky and call it research. The “Best of Cleveland” team recently sampled three ...

While no patent on the Trapper Keeper itself appears to exist, patents for those elements do. It is Wyant, not Crutchfield, who is named on the patent for the diagonal folder (US3870223A, granted in ...

E. Bryant Crutchfield, the inventor of the Trapper Keeper, has died. The Trapper Keeper, as you might recall, was the hot school supply to have in the 1980s. I mean, I had to have one. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Back to school is taking on a whole new meaning this fall. The mobile accessory maker Kensington, in partnership with the school supplies and stationery brand Mead, is set to bring students way, way ...

Crutchfield cited Wyant as giving the Trapper Keeper its name and logo. But Wyant said that he was also responsible for the innovative diagonal (versus the then-standard vertical) pockets, the notepad ...