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San Bernardino County Sheriff Gary Penrod said Tuesday he plans to retire at the end of January.

Penrod, 60, a 38-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department, was elected to the top job in 1994. He told The Sun and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin he plans to pursue other interests.

An official announcement is expected Wednesday.

Penrod has lived in the county since 1953. He graduated from Redlands High School and attended San Bernardino Valley College, Victor Valley College, UC Santa Barbara and UC Riverside. He joined the Sheriff's Department in 1971 and moved up the ranks, from deputy to deputy chief. He took on the additional role of county coroner when the two offices merged in 2005.

No successor has been named. Athough sheriff is an elected position, the county's Board of Supervisors is able to make an interim appointment in instances such as this.

Three people suffered stab wounds after a fight erupted during a party in a guest room at a popular Victorville hotel.

Deputies were called out to the Green Tree Inn, located in the 14000 block of Green Tree Boulevard, about 12:40 a.m. Saturday and found the victims with multiple stab wounds, according to the Sheriff's Department.

One of the persons involved in the initial fight had left and then returned to the hotel with more people, explained Jodi Miller, a Sheriff's spokeswoman.

Two sheriff's deputies based in the Morongo Basin will be among a host of law enforcement officers who were honored today by Mothers Against Drunk Driving in San Bernardino for their service in keeping communities safe from impaired motorists.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies Philip Beuschlein and Curtis Kolb were selected from among many candidates at the Morongo Basin sheriff's station for their high rate of arrests and convictions over the past year.

Beuschlein and Kolb are currently assigned to the contract city of Twentynine Palms.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department may have reached a settlement with a Muslim woman who sued and alleged her religious freedom was violated when she was forced to remove a head scarf while being booked at a county jail in 2005.

A document filed in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, by lawyers for the Sheriff's Department says a settlement was reached in the matter. Sheriff's officials confirmed Tuesday that its Civil Liabilities Division is aware of the document.

"But nothing has been finalized yet," said Sgt. Dave Phelps, a department spokesman. The department's position is that the settlement is not yet completed, and he could not comment further.