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

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 ...

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 ...

Genesis Cruz graduated from Jordan High School in 2023 and organized student protests against Atlas. She hopes that one day the space the facility occupies can be transformed into a “healing space” ...

WATTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC ... on Monday gathered outside of Atlas Iron & Metal Co., which towers over Jordan High School. Genesis Cruz is a student at Jordan High School. She will be graduating ...

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 ...

On the first day of classes, students and staff at Jordan High School in Watts were rattled by an explosion at a neighboring scrap metal recycler, according to officials. Around 8:20 a.m. Monday ...

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 ...

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