ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. -- Quebec provincial police divers have recovered the body of former NHL star Hubert (Pit) Martin, who drowned after the snowmobile he was riding on plunged into an icy lake near his home.

Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77.

TORONTO -- Ted Rogers, who transformed a single Toronto FM radio station into the North American broadcasting, publishing and telecoms conglomerate Rogers Communications, died Tuesday at his home in Toronto. He was 75.

TORONTO (AP) — Kenny MacLean, the bassist for the 1980s band Platinum Blonde, has died. He was 52.

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — MC Breed, a Michigan rapper who burst onto the national scene with the 1991 hit "Ain't No Future in Yo' Frontin'," died Saturday. He was 37.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — John Michael Hayes, a screenwriter who was nominated for Academy Awards for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film "Rear Window" and for "Peyton Place," died Wednesday. He was 89.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Lucas, who until recently fronted the blues rock band Canned Heat and was known for his barrelhouse vocals, died Sunday. He was 46.

LONDON -- Missing Manic Street Preachers guitarist and songwriter Richey Edwards has been declared as presumed dead, 13 years after he disappeared, a spokesman for the band said on Monday.

Betty James, the co-founder and former owner of the company that made Slinky Toys, has died.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — The world's oldest polar bear has died at a Canadian zoo.