By Bob Cuddy -- The countdown continues for the Top 10 Stories of 2009 selected by the Tribune editorial staff.The normally sedate county government bureaucracy was rocked during the spring and summer by a scandal at its highest levels, as the personal and professional lives of its top two administrators mingled in ways that brought their job performances under close scrutiny. By the time the temblor had subsided, Chief Administrative Officer David Edge and his second-in-command, Assistant County Administrator Gail Wilcox, had been fired, and Edge and the county were fighting a lawsuit from Wilcox alleging inappropriate sexual behavior.

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