JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) – Jurors could resume deliberations Monday in a case involving a Merrimack man charged with holding his former girlfriend hostage while sexually assaulting and threatening to kill her.

A three-day trial for Brian Chevalier, 37, ended Thursday in Jaffrey-Peterborough District Court.

Prosecutors said Chevalier bound a 33-year-old Jaffrey woman to a bed and covered her mouth with duct tape while he assaulted her for about 21 hours. Authorities said they met over the Internet and previously dated for about three months.

Prosecutors said he grabbed the woman when she came home from work.

But Chevalier’s lawyers said the woman invited him over. Chevalier has said he also was tied to the bed and had bite marks and rope burns.

Salem board member refuses to resign

SALEM, N.H. (AP) – Salem Planning Board member Robert Mayer is refusing to resign after he’s been indicted on federal fraud and bribery charges.

Prosecutors said he took bribes while funneling $4 million worth of government contracts to a Derry home renovator and four co-conspirators. Prosecutors said he did it through his former job with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ regional loan office in Manchester.

The community’s selectman chairman has asked Mayer to resign and has said he’d reconsider Mayer’s status on the planning board after legal proceedings end.

But Mayer said the public call for his resignation was an attempt to embarrass him and added that he hasn’t been found guilty of a crime.

Mayer got a leave of absence after the April indictments. Jury selection in the case is due to start in November.