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Probable swine flu case identified in Deer Park school

More than 300 students stayed home from a Deer Park school Thursday despite assurances from school and health officials that the school was safe after a student was identified earlier this week as a probable case of swine flu.

"I was afraid to send him," said parent Donna Jakubowski, whose 10-year-old son, Jake Seitz, is in the fifth grade at John F. Kennedy Intermediate School. "I didn't...

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