Officials in Nassau and Suffolk counties reported a half-dozen tragic deaths following this week's massive snowfall in the New York metro area.

Kate Pettrone Morse, one of teh victims of last week's Lake Tahoe avalanche, was an upstate New York girl who never forgot her roots, friends said.

Jose Dimas Guerra Castro was convicted of murder and deported but snuck back into the US -- until the feds caught up with him again.