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ByAmyTaxin The Associated Press SANTAANA Afederaljudge on Monday sentenced a Cal- ifornia man to 15 years in prison for trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria, calling his conduct a serious threat to the U.S. and saying it was influ- enced by his abusive child- hood and history of mental problems. Orange County native Adam Dandach, 22, was also ordered to undergo supervised release for the rest of his life after he pleaded guilty last year to trying to provide material support to a terror group and lying on his passport application. The case against Dan- dach is one in a series in- volving young men in states ranging from California to Georgia who have been charged with trying to as- sist Islamic State and other groups. The U.S. "faces signifi- cant threat from terrorists' acts planned or commit- ted by homegrown violent extremists like (the) defen- dant who become radical- ized online and seek to en- gage in terror and support groups like ISIL," federal prosecutors wrote in court filings before sentencing. The prosecutors had sought a 20-year sentence for Dandach, who authori- ties said had videos of ex- ecutions and decapitations by terrorists stored on his computer. He also encour- aged terrorist beliefs in on- line chatrooms and contin- ued to write violent poetry even from jail, authorities said. "To this day he is mak- ing deliberate choices to continue to support this vi- olent and horrific terrorist organization," Celeste Cor- lett, an assistant U.S. at- torney, said before sentenc- ing in the Santa Ana court- room. U.S. District Judge James V. Selna said terror- ist activity in any form is a threat to the U.S. and other countries. In court filings, Selna acknowledged Dan- dach's abuse at the hands of his father, history of obesity and litany of men- tal problems ranging from post-traumatic stress to depression. Dandach weighed as much as 550 pounds when he was a teenager and later underwent surgery, the judge wrote. His parents di- vorced when he was 9. TERRORISM Californiamansentenced for trying to aid IS By Juliet Williams The Associated Press SACRAMENTO An online magazine opinion piece at- tributed to California's lieu- tenant governor contains at least one paragraph that largely initially appeared elsewhere, while several of the Democratic politician's Twitter and Facebook posts from the last month lack citations to their original sources. In an article criticizing vice presidential candi- date Mike Pence for his re- cord on lesbian and gay is- sues, Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote about Pence's support for conver- sion therapy — a discred- ited practice intended to "retrain" gay people. One paragraph contains sentences nearly identical to those on the website of the National Center for Les- bian Rights, but it is not at- tributed as such. Kate Kendell, executive director of NCLR, said she knew Newsom was writing the piece and sent material to his team, likely including that specific link, which she encouraged them to use. "If somebody's suggest- ing that's plagiarism, that's hilarious," she said. "It's open-source material that anybody who googles 'con- version therapy methods' would get this paragraph of methods that are used." Several other posts on Newsom's Twitter and Face- book feeds about Pence also appear to have origi- nally appeared elsewhere and are not attributed to their sources: Mother Jones, Vox and New York Maga- zine, which posted a story called "The 5 Worst Deci- sions Mike Pence Has Made About Women's Health." The passage, minus the introduction, appeared word-for-word in shaded quote boxes on Newsom's Facebook page, including the numerical listing, and in separate posts on his Twitter feed, without attri- bution noting the material originally came from New York Magazine. Newsom, a candidate for governor in 2018, is a pro- lific social media user who often posts updates sev- eral times a day. His politi- cal spokesman, Jason Kin- ney, said Newsom is "gen- erous with personal credit, retweets and shares accord- ing to the brave new stan- dards of online posting." CONTROVERSY Top California official's essay, posts lack citations By Christopher Weber and Brian Melley The Associated Press SANTA CLARITA A raging wildfire that forced thou- sands from their homes on the edge of Los Angeles continued to burn Monday as frustrated fire officials said residents reluctant to heed evacuation orders made conditions more dan- gerous and destructive for their neighbors. The smoky fire tore through drought-ravaged brush that hadn't burned in decades amid a swel- tering heat wave and ex- ploded over the weekend. It burned more than 51 square miles and destroyed at least 18 residences. But some firefighters had been unable to battle some of the blaze because of evacuation holdouts they had to spend time helping to safety instead of put- ting out destructive flames, County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said. Some firefighters "felt that they lost additional structures because they had to stop what they were doing to help citizens evac- uate," Osby said. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Justin Correll urged residents to leave quickly when evacuation orders are issued because their "property becomes secondary." "We don't want firemen to become traffic direc- tors," he said. The fire was one of two destructive California in- fernos that were sending smoke wafting hundreds of miles (kilometers) away to Las Vegas and Reno, Ne- vada, where officials issued air pollution warnings. A blaze in the scenic Big Sur region of the Cen- tral Coast by Monday had destroyed 20 homes and threatened 1,650 others as it burned 23 square miles. InSantaClarita,30miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, a fire broke out Friday near a highway and quickly spread through arid vegetation in rugged mountains before making its way down into canyons with sprawling subdivi- sions of large homes. By Monday, about 10 percent of Santa Clari- ta's 200,000 residents had been ordered out of their homes as erratic winds stoked the blaze. The large majority were allowed to return Monday night. It wasn't clear exactly how many would remain in their homes, but only two neighborhoods remained under evacuation orders. The fire exploded Sat- urday like a "crazy storm," said Kara Franklin, who said sand driven by heavy winds hit her in the face as she tried to get a horse and donkey into a trailer so she could tow the animals away. From a ridgetop, she saw flames engulf a neigh- borhood. Whentheblazeappeared to die down, she thought the worst was over and re- turned. Then it flared up again, and she and her son used a garden hose to put out embers that ignited spot fires on her property before fleeing. "The heat was so in- tense," Franklin said Mon- day from a high school that had been turned into an evacuation center. "It was an inferno that was blaz- ing ... just coming over the ridge." A house two doors from hers was engulfed, provid- ing a buffer that helped save her house. Three Forest Service firefighters lost their homes at a remote fire station in the San Gabriel Mountains, including two who were fighting the fire at the time. The fire destroyed film sets at Sable Ranch in Santa Clarita, which has Old West-style buildings used for movie locations. It also forced a nonprofit sanctuary for rescued ex- otic creatures to evacuate 340 of its more than 400 animals, including Bengal tigers and a mountain lion. Investigators on Mon- day were trying to deter- mine the cause of death of a man whose body was found in a car in the fire zone Saturday. Nearly 3,000 firefight- ers were trying to put the Santa Clarita blaze out. Fire trucks lined streets of vacant and nearly vacant subdivisions as helicopters dropped water and planes unleashed ribbons of red fire retardant to protect homes. Air quality officials is- sued smoke advisories warning people in the greater Los Angeles area about dangers from breath- ing smoke that wafted over the region and rained ash on Saturday. Firefighters saved about 2,000 homes in the fire's first three days, Los An- geles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp said. One belonged to Ted Kellum, a defense con- tractor who moved in two years ago with his wife and four children. Kellum recalled Monday that he saw smoke pouring over a mountain ridge Friday and "scurried" with his family when a wall of flames and a cloud of smoke followed the next day and destroyed a neighbor's $3 million house. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Wi ld fi re b ur ns b ui ld in gs as residents balk at leaving RINGOH.W.CHIU—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A firefighter battles a wildfire near Placenta Canyon Road in Santa Clarita on Sunday. The Associated Press SACRAMENTO California will no longer label dogs seized from illegal fighting rings as "vicious," mak- ing safe rescue dogs more likely to get adopted. Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday to give dogs with cruel owners a chance at rehabilitation. AB1825 allows animal sanctuaries, veterinarians andotherstojudgedogs'be- haviorbeforelabelingthem. State law classifies as vicious any dog that hurts a person without provo- cation. 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