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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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