Now that the opening ceremonies are over and the competitions are underway at the 2014 Winter Games, Team USA's Sage Kotsenburg has taken the first gold medal in men slope-style.

Snowboarders are a tight-knit group, and although that can cause problems when one boarder stands out above the crowd, it is the source of tremendous group pride.

Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold of the Sochi Games in slopestyle on Saturday. And while Canadians may have some cause to gripe about the results, those on the mountain and closest to Kotsenburg offered plenty of slope support.

Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the US embargo on Cuba. This communist island nation is the only one-party state in the western hemisphere.

The embargo, known among Cubans as "El Bloqueo" or "The Blockade," consists of economic sanctions against Cuba and restrictions on Cuban travel and commerce for all people and companies under US jurisdiction.

A new analysis from the Tri State Transportation Campaign says Broadway is the City's most dangerous road.

Their analysis identifies the most dangerous roads in the tri-state region for pedestrian fatalities. Looking at federal data from 2010 to 2012, it includes fact-sheets and maps that identify the locations of pedestrian fatalities and the age and gender of those killed. Counties in downstate New York and New Jersey that had five or more pedestrian fatalities over the three-year period were analyzed, as was the state of Connecticut.

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Olympics: While the games begin in SOCHI, Russia, The 2014 Winter Olympics got underway Thursday the 22nd Winter Games started with crystal clear temperature just below 20 degrees.

These Olympics are an 18-day competition beginning with qualifying in the men and women slope-style events, qualifying in women's freestyle skiing moguls and team figure skating. Both the slope-style competitions and the team figure skating are new events to this year's program, during which 98 gold medals will be awarded.

Tutor Perini Corporation was awarded the contract to build The City Island Bridge and is now being awarded another one valued at approximately $60 million. This one is for building a replacement Maintenance of Equipment building at the Hudson Yards site in New York, in connection with the Company’s previously announced Amtrak Tunnel project.