Deadline extended for UNC officials’ plan for ‘Silent Sam’

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Trustees at North Carolina’s flagship university will have more time to propose what to do with a torn-down Confederate statue.
News outlets report that the University of North Carolina system’s Board of Governors agreed Friday to postpone the Nov. 15 deadline for UNC-Chapel Hill’s leaders to develop a plan for the “Silent Sam” statue. Protesters toppled the 105-year-old bronze statue of a Confederate soldier in August. It is stored at