S&W Atlas Iron & Metal pleads guilty to multiple counts of failing to properly dispose of hazardous waste, charges that stemmed from allegations it belched projectiles and toxins onto a high school.

The company pleaded no contest to five felony counts and must close permanently -- a win for neighbors and students at Jordan ...

Flying shrapnel, loud booms and toxic fumes — these dangerous conditions have become ordinary for students at Jordan High School in Watts, and after years of sounding the alarm community members ...

Community leaders gathered at Jordan High School to celebrate the reopening ... and all the revitalization that's happening here in Watts, makes that so much more important," said UMMA Community ...

A Watts community expressed anger and frustration Tuesday following another explosion at a metal recycling plant right next to a high school. Students and officials at Jordan High School in Watts ...

A former student at Jordan High School said the judge’s decision means the metal company’s owners are finally feeling “the consequences for their decades of damage to the Watts community.” ...

One of the two owners of a metal salvage and recycling yard adjacent to Jordan High School in Watts was ordered Monday to remain jailed in lieu of $1 million bail in connection with charges that ...

“Today is the first time the owners of Atlas metals have felt the consequences for their decades of damage to the Watts community," Genesis Cruz, a former Jordan High School student, said in a ...

The Jordan High School campus, left, and neighboring S&W Atlas Iron & Metal Co. in June 2020. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) ...

Read more:Scrapyard explosion rattles Watts high school on first day of ... Genesis Cruz graduated from Jordan High School in 2023 and organized student protests against Atlas.