</s>Although we are several days away from Roy Cooper's public inauguration, he has already been sworn in as Governor of North Carolina.</s>YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Two Mahoning County Commissioners were sworn in Saturday at the downtown courthouse.

Anthony Traficanti was sworn in for his fourth term, while Dave Ditzler was sworn in for his second term.

Ditzler, Traficanti, and Carol Righetti make up the Mahoning County Commissioner team.

Ditzler said he feels honored to serve the community for a second time.

“It’s overwhelming,” he said. “We’re very blessed to be given an opportunity to represent our county and our community. You know, it’s something that not many people have the opportunity to do.”

The Commissioners say they will be working on several new projects in 2017 — including repairing the roads throughout the County, and building a state of the art dog shelter.</s>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico senator wants the public to see how the governor is spending her personal fund.

Republican Senator Sander Rue is sponsoring a bill to require an audit of the $70,000 annual governor’s fund. It would also require the governor’s office to submit monthly spending reports to the Legislative Finance Committee.

The governor has used the money for social events, including a holiday party a year ago that made the news after it got rowdy and the governor was heard in a recording trying to call off police. Questions later arose about how much the governor spent to hold the party at the four star hotel.

Senator Rue says the bill wouldn’t tell the governor how to spend that money. It would just make the fund more transparent.</s>ARCHDALE, N.C. – Governor-Elect Roy Cooper is not the only state official who will be sworn in minutes after the New Year. Mike Causey will be sworn in as the state’s next Department of Insurance Commissioner shortly after midnight.

Causey will take the oath of office at the Guil-Rand Fire Department in Archdale. He will be sworn in by N.C Court of Appeals Judge John Tyson.

"For many years, I've worked hard to become our state's insurance commissioner, and the people have put their trust in me to make insurance friendlier and more competitive in North Carolina," Causey said. "To start this journey, to show that I value the people's voice and respect their trust in me, I wanted my official start to come as soon as it possibly could."

Causey wanted members of the state's fire service community to witness his oath.

"They are silent heroes, risking their lives every day, but seldom get the appreciation they deserve," Causey said about N.C.'s firemen.

Guil-Rand Fire Chief Brian Cox said this was an exciting event for the fire department. "It's a honor to have Mike sworn in here," he said.
Quirino Ordaz Coppel is sworn in as Governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa.