Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

The troublesome Atlas Iron and Metal Corp. will permanently close its Watts recycling plant after its owners pleaded no contest to polluting a nearby school campus with hazardous materials. "This ...

The owner of a scrap metal company that’s been linked to explosions and hazardous materials in the Watts neighborhood of South Los Angeles was ordered Tuesday to pay over $1.8 million in restitution.

Ariel view of Jordan High School next to the S&W Atlas Iron & Metal recycling plant in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. (William Liang/For The Times) A Los Angeles County judge ordered the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crane lifts scrap metal at Atlas Iron & Metal Co., in Watts, in June 2020. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The U.S.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered one of the two owners of a Watts scrap metal facility to remain jailed on Monday with bail set at $1 million. The decision came as the two owners of S&W ...