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Maricopa County health inspectors recently visited more than 400 restaurants across the Valley, with nearly 200 receiving an A rating. Others, not so much.
For the week of July 5, two restaurants in metro Phoenix were cited for nine health violations.
See which restaurants are considered Grade A and what the violations were for the restaurants cited.
Other big stories
➤ If a person buys into a neighborhood with an HOA , they agree to live by a set of rules called the covenants, conditions and restrictions , or CC&Rs. Here's everything you need to know about HOAs.
➤ Who would replace Sen. Mark Kelly in the U.S. Senate if he is the vice presidential pick ? Appointing a replacement would fall to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a fellow Democrat .
➤ Developers will demolish a popular apartment complex in Tempe and build a new, taller one, following unanimous approval by the city council despite the objections of existing tenants . Here's what you need to know .
➤ Today, an air quality alert is in effect. You can expect it to be breezy in the morning with dangerous heat and a high near 112 degrees. Expect it to be partly cloudy at night with a low near 91 degrees. Get the full forecast here .
Check out these new metro Phoenix ice cream shops
Several exciting new ice cream shops opened in metro Phoenix in the last year, including Salt & Straw in Gilbert and Handel's in Peoria and Tempe .
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Today in history
Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.
- On this day in 1911 : With the help of locals in the region, American archaeologist Hiram Bingham rediscovered the ruins of Machu Picchu, an ancient settlement and citadel of the Incas tucked away in the countryside of Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru.
- In 1923 : One of the final treaties of World War I, the Treaty of Lausanne, was signed at Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland, by Greece, France, Turkey, Britain, Italy, Japan, Romania and the then-Kingdom of Serbia. Its purpose was to resolve the conflicts between those countries and set boundaries for Turkey.
- In 1929 : The Kellogg-Briand Pact went into effect. The pact, signed by most world powers including France, Germany and the U.S., was an international peace agreement in which the signatory states promised that “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them” will not be resolved through war. A decade later, World War II began.
- In 1959 : U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in an impromptu debate over each nation’s policies and progress at the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow. The heated conversation reached its peak while the two leaders toured a model of an American kitchen, whereby the infamous incident got its nickname: “The Kitchen Debate.”
- In 1969: Apollo 11 – the U.S. space mission that had taken Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin to the surface of the moon while Command Module Pilot Michael Collins waited over 21 hours for them and flew Columbia around the moon – landed safely back on Earth, splashing into the Pacific Ocean.
- In 1974 : In a blow to President Richard Nixon, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected his claims of “absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances” and ordered him to surrender White House tapes to the Watergate investigation.
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