[naviga:h3]Hundreds protest after parade[/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — After a parade to mark Pittsburgh’s 200th anniversary as a city, protesters marched in the western Pennsylvania city over recent police shootings across the country.

Several hundred people, some affiliated with the Black Lives Matter group, gathered at Point State Park on Saturday afternoon and marched, chanting, through the downtown area to the county courthouse.

The crowd paused briefly to mark the spot where transit police shot and killed a man who had stabbed a police dog to death. Police said the marchers occasionally blocked traffic but the event was peaceful.

Earlier, thousands took part in the bicentennial celebration featuring marching groups of descendants of city mayors — dating back to Ebenezer Denny, Pittsburgh’s first mayor — and puppets of Pittsburgh luminaries such as Henry Clay Frick and Andy Warhol.

[naviga:h3]‘Lambs’ house sells for $195,000[/naviga:h3]

LAYTON — The Pennsylvania house used in the Oscar-winning film “The Silence of the Lambs” has been sold.

Real estate agent Dianne Wilk said the home in Layton sold last week for $195,000.

The house was home to psychotic killer Buffalo Bill in the 1991 film that starred Anthony Hopkins as imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Jodie Foster as an FBI agent trying to learn the interworking of his mind.

Scott and Barbara Lloyd listed the three-story Victorian home for sale last summer for $300,000.

Wilk says the Lloyds felt the movie might have improved the home’s value.

She says the buyer was interested in the home because it had been in the film.

[naviga:h3]No injuries reported at chemical plant fire[/naviga:h3]

SPEERS — Authorities say a fire caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to a chemical plant, but no injuries were reported.

Fourteen fire departments responded shortly before 1:30 p.m. Friday to the blaze at National Polymers off Interstate 70 near the Monongahela River in Washington County.

The blaze had already been contained by the building’s automatic sprinkler system and prevented the flames from reaching chemicals stored in the plant.

Fire crews had the flames out in less than an hour but remained for two more hours venting smoke and making sure the area was clear.

Chief Robert Whiten Jr., of the Charleroi Fire Department, said the blaze appeared to have been accidental but the exact cause wasn’t immediately clear.