His attorney said he didn't want to put the girls' families through a trial.

Three people, two of them local firefighters, died after a pontoon and a commercial barge collided July 11 in Lake Pepin.

Officials have identified the two off-duty firefighters and a third person who were killed in an after-dark collision between a pontoon and a barge on Lake Pepin. The Wabasha County (Minn.) Sheriff’s ...