PITTSBURGH - UPMC Health Plan is offering a zero premium Medicare plan and is reducing premiums on other plans it offers, including prescription drug plans.

UPMC for Life Basic is now available for residents in Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington and Westmoreland counties who are enrolled in Medicare parts A and B, and who continue to pay their Part B premium.

Plan subscribers pay no additional premiums. Before, the no-premium plan was available only to Allegheny County residents.

Effective March 1, the $35 monthly premium will be eliminated and members also will se reductions in co-payments for outpatient mental health and inpatient substance abuse.

For more information, call 877-381-3765 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

WEXFORD - The Northern Allegheny County Chamber of Commerce is hosting the Business Trade Show and Expo 2004 from 2 to 6 p.m. March 11 at The Chadwick.The Expo is a networking event featuring new products and services offered by Northern Allegheny County businesses. The actual networking will be from 4 to 6 p.m.Both events are open to the public. For more information, call the chamber at 724-934-9700 or visit www.naccc.com. Bring business cards and brochures.

GREENVILLE, Mercer County - UPMC Horizon, Thiel College and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church are offering the Community Medical Ethics Project from 1 to 3 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. March 23 in the Lutheran Heritage Room in the Thiel College Howard Miller Student Center.The topic of the seminar is "Suffering: Pointless or Purposeful, the Role of Understanding in the Relief of Suffering."The mission of the project is to educate the public in medical ethics to better equip them to make ethical decisions related to medicine as well as life and death issues.To register for either session, call 724-589-6640.Slippery Rock Financial Corp.has announced a cash dividend of 15 cents per share. It is payable on March 31 to shareholders of record as of March 8.---F.N.B. Corp.announces a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of 23 cents per share. The dividend is payable on March 15 to shareholders of record as of March 1.---WesBancoannounces an increase in the quarterly cash dividend to 25 cents per share, up from 24 cents per share. It will be paid on April 1 to shareholders of record on March 8.