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A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detective has died from an apparent medical emergency while driving in unincorporated Torrance, authorities said Monday.

More rain is expected Monday after the Southland saw record rainfall Saturday, leading to flooded streets and emergencies ranging from the rescue of a woman hanging onto a tree in a Laguna Hills creek to multiple cars being crushed by a fallen tree in a Woodland Hills parking lot.

The current storm hitting Los Angeles County has made ocean swimming near storm drains unsafe, officials warned Saturday.

Santa Anita Park has promoted veteran horseman and racing official Jason Egan to the position of director of racing and racing secretary, track officials announced Saturday.

The 35th Martin Luther King Jr. Parade was held in Long Beach Saturday after being canceled the previous two years because of the coronavirus pandemic, but a planned celebration after the parade was canceled due to weather conditions.

A person died from an apparent medical emergency Saturday on the Santa Ana (5) Freeway in Norwalk.

The already saturated Southland will continue to be drenched with off-and-on precipitation through Monday, forecasters say.

Temperatures are expected to dip below freezing in parts of the Southland over the next few days, prompting health officials to issue a cold weather alert Sunday.

A person was struck and killed Sunday morning by a hit-and-run vehicle in Westminster, authorities said.

Firefighters and workers from Long Beach and Los Angeles County were busy Saturday afternoon trying to stop flooding in the Long Beach Peninsula community due to the latest rainstorm.