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Eight screeners at Newark Airport in New Jersey were fired Wednesday morning after they were caught on video sleeping on the job or failing to follow standard operating procedures for screening checked bags, authorities said.

Federal aviation officials say air traffic controllers will be allowed to use sick or annual leave time if they are too tired to work.

A third air traffic controller has been fired for sleeping on the job, even as some say naps should be allowed during working hours to enhance controller attentiveness.

The Federal Aviation Administration changed air traffic control work schedules Saturday, acknowledging it has a widespread problem with fatigue after another controller fell asleep on duty - this time in Miami....

The best solution to the problem of sleepy air traffic controllers is more sleeping on the job, scientists say....

The head of the FAA's air traffic control unit resigned Thursday after a fifth controller was caught dozing while working the graveyard shift, officials said. "Hank Krakowski has submitted his resignation, and I have accepted it," said Randy Babbit, chief administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Federal Aviation Administration has uncovered another incident in which an air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, and the agency's chief told a congressional panel Wednesday the incident was "willful."

A northwestern Ohio school board is firing a longtime teacher after an investigation concluded she slept in class and repeatedly arrived late.