UNC removes Confederate pedestal from campus overnight

Crews removed remnants of a Confederate statue from North Carolina's flagship public university early Tuesday, hours after the school's outgoing chancellor ordered that the empty pedestal be put into storage because of safety concerns.The University of North Carolina sent a statement around 1 a.m. Tuesday confirming that removal of the pedestal was under way at its Chapel Hill campus. In a statement Monday, Chancellor Carol Folt had announced the plan to remove the empty base for the statue know