Concord city leaders are suddenly in the middle of a siege on the former Concord Tribune newspaper building, which is gradually crumbling as you read this. The Concord Historic Preservation Commission tonight will ask the City Council for money to hire a lawyer to represent it. Normally, City Attorney Al Benshoff represents the commission. But he has temporarily stepped aside, because his main duty is to represent the city, which itself is now involved in the brewing legal debate with Cabarrus County over the building. "There's enough confusion to fill an ocean," Concord Mayor Scott Padgett said Wednesday. Here's what happened: The Cabarrus County commissioners recently gave County Manager John Day permission to get bids and hire a contractor to tear down the old brick building, which is on adjoining property a few feet from construction of the county's new $75 million jail, annex and Sheriff's Office downtown....