S&W Atlas Iron & Metal agreed to close and pleaded guilty Tuesday to multiple counts of failing to properly dispose of hazardous waste, charges that stemmed from allegations the recycling plant ...

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

During her four years at Jordan High School, Genesis Cruz repeatedly sounded the alarm for fellow students about the metal recycling plant operating next to the historic Watts campus. At protests ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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