Update, 5 p.m. Thursday: Lawyers made their closing arguments in the homicide trial Thursday afternoon.

Jurors will now begin trying to reach a verdict on two counts each of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault for Leonardo Bongolto, Jr. and Denison Soria.

They're accused in the death of Jonathan Adams after an alleged fight outside a bunkhouse in February 2012.

The F/V Ocean Ranger undergoes repairs at the Resolve-Magone Marine Services dock Wednesday afternoon. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)

A fishing boat from Homer ran aground outside an Unalaska harbor Tuesday night after going the wrong way around a channel marker. 

The F/V Ocean Ranger was heading into the Bobby Storrs Boat Harbor around 6 p.m. when it struck a reef.

Unalaska Ports Director Peggy McLaughlin says the boat's crew probably misread their navigational charts.

Unalaska went dark during a brief power outage Wednesday morning. Powerhouse supervisor Jim Fitch says it was accidentally caused by work on the new engine at the powerhouse. 

He says the contractor that’s installing the engine was running a test on some new equipment. That inadvertantly triggered an automatic shutdown of one of the powerhouse's other engines.

The Sea Trader (left), seen from the deck of the tug James Dunlap, waits to be tied on to Unalaska's emergency mooring buoy. At center, the city's harbor patrol boat stands by to assist. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)

After seven years, Unalaska’s emergency system for towing stranded vessels away from shore is finally complete.

A new dedicated buoy for disabled ships got its first full-scale test during an annual drill last week.

For tugboat captain Leonardo Asayama-Lucena, conditions couldn't have better: clear skies, calm seas and next to no wind.

"This is the best-case scenario: the weather is perfect, the boats aren’t drifting around too much," Lucena said during last week's drill.

Skip Southworth, Forrest Dunbar and Dennis Robinson talk politics at Unalaska's Burma Road Chapel. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)

The Democrat who’s running to unseat U.S. Rep. Don Young was in Unalaska this week, trying to build a base of support.

Forrest Dunbar met a handful of constituents and local leaders at a forum Monday night.

Turnout was low, but Dunbar wasn’t discouraged: "It’s really important to me, coming from a rural background … to get off the road system and go to smaller communities and go to the hub communities," he said Monday.

The Lowlands Maine (Courtesy: Claus Schafe/marinetraffic.com)

A Coast Guard crew medevacked a mariner with an injured hand off a freighter south of Unalaska Wednesday.

The cutter Alex Haley responded to the request from the 738-foot Lowlands Maine. It's Panama-flagged vessel that was on its way from China to the Seattle area.

A 55-year-old crew member on the ship had hurt his hand in the engine room and needed medical treatment, according to a Coast Guard press release.

Testimony began Wednesday in the jury trial of two men accused of beating a former coworker to death outside an Unalaska bunkhouse.

Leonardo Bongolto, Jr., 36, and Denison Soria, 42, are charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault in the death of 55-year-old Jonathan Adams in Feb. 2012.

The three men were seafood processors at Bering Fisheries at the time, living in bunkhouses on Gilman Road.

City council approved new policies for hiring contractors at a short meeting last night.

The code changes give the city new tools to rule out low bidders when choosing companies to do city projects.

Councilor Dave Gregory took issue with one section that lets council consider whether a contractor has unresolved disputes with the city. The language would let council use that as their sole criteria in choosing to go with a different company. Gregory thought that could lead to conflict.

Jury selection will continue this week in the trial of two men accused of beating a co-worker to death in 2012.

It’s the first real test of Unalaska’s new year-long jury pool, which took effect in January.

Statewide jury coordinator Patricia Young says the change has been good news in a town where potential jurors don’t always stay put -- and where big trials aren’t very common.

"It’s a high-profile case," she says. "You know you’re going to need a lot of people because the potential for a lot of people to be excused is great."