W. Russell Boss, former president and chairman of the A.T. Cross Co., manufacturers of top-shelf pens and mechanical pencils, died on Monday at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale. He was 79.

Cross, the company that developed the ballpoint pen and the mechanical pencil, opened its first-ever retail store this weekend at Zero Brattle St.

The Cross pen and pencil company was founded in 1846 inProvidence by Richard Cross, who came from a family ofjewelers. Robin Boss, the company's vice president of global strategicinitiatives, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The company that makes Cross pens is on a push to reinvigorate its 170-year-old brand, starting with a flagship store in the same city where it was founded and once crafted… ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The company that makes Cross pens is on a push to reinvigorate its 170-year-old brand, starting with a flagship store in the same city where it was founded and once ...