Business Digest || Conan O’Brien to give away 20 Cruzes

Conan O’Brien to give away 20 Cruzes

new york

Conan O’Brien announced Tuesday that he will give away 20 2011 Chevrolet Cruze cars on his new TBS show, “Conan.” The campaign, dubbed the “20 Pine Tree Air Fresheners in 20 Nights Giveaway Spectacular Sweepstakes,” will give viewers the chance to enter online to win one of 20 pine-tree air fresheners that happen to be wrapped in one of General Motors’ new Lordstown-built compact cars. One winner will be announced on each episode of the ‘Conan’ show until Dec. 21.

The car is the show’s “first long-form product integration and online giveaway,” O’Brien said Tuesday.

To enter, visit www.teamcoco.com/chevycruze.

F.N.B. dividend

hermitage, pa.

F.N.B. Corp., parent company of First National Bank, said Wednesday its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 12 cents per share. The dividend is payable Dec. 15 to shareholders of record as of Dec. 1.

Physical therapy practice opens

austintown

Drayer Physical Therapy Institute opened its fourth Ohio location Wednesday at 6006 Mahoning Ave., Suite G. The center specializes in orthopedics, sports medicine, manual therapy, orthotics, occupational rehabilitation, neurological rehabilitation, vestibular rehabilitation and decompression traction therapy. Center manager and physical therapist Eric O’Brien oversees a staff of five.

Drayer, based in Hummelstown, Pa., works with all insurance types and provides rehabilitation services with a physician’s referral. Patients are guaranteed an appointment within 24 hours from the time of their request.

For information, call 330-755-3000. The center is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and by appointment Saturdays.

Experts: BP ignored warning signs

WASHINGTON

A new report from an independent scientific panel says BP and its contractors missed and ignored key warning signs and failed to fully recognize important risks in the days and hours leading up to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil-well blowout.

Some of the panel’s conclusions appear more critical of BP, the owner of the well, than did preliminary findings issued last week by the presidential oil spill commission.

That commission said although BP made decisions that saved time, it found no evidence that employees consciously chose saving money over safety. The National Academy of Engineering, which issued the latest report, said BP and others involved in the disaster failed to manage risks and didn’t even have a system in place to weigh safety against costs.

Vindicator staff/wire reports