Gunmen kill 9 motorcycle riders in southern Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Police say gunmen have stopped a group of motorcycle riders then opened fire in a busy downtown area in the southern Philippines and killed nine people in the latest violence in the volatile south. Police officials said Sunday the attack on the victims, who were mostly farmers, at noon Saturday in Kabacan town in Cotabato province may have been sparked by a local feud and was not an act of terrorism. Cotabato lies in a poverty-wracked region where a decades-long