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This spring, a Maricopa County health inspector reported that a restaurant worker moved a trash can with gloved hands and then worked with ready-to-eat food without washing their hands or changing their gloves.
At a restaurant in Tempe, inspectors visiting in June saw a worker touch their face while eating and then handle food without washing their hands.
This month, an inspector saw an employee at a cafe in Phoenix handle dirty dishes and then touch clean dishes without first washing their hands.
Restaurant workers not washing hands is a big health risk. See the places with the most violations and learn the symptoms of salmonella to watch out for.
Other big stories
➤ Arizonans pay about
on their monthly electricity bill on average during the summer. How does your bill compare?
➤ Buyers spent almost $45,000,000 in cash on metro Phoenix’s priciest houses to sell during the final week of June. Check out what these homes feature.
➤ Amazon Prime Day will be July 16-17. Before you start ordering, here's everything Arizona shoppers need to know, including start and end times.
➤ Today, you can expect it to be very warm and mostly cloudy, with a high near 108 degrees. Expect it to be partly cloudy at night with a low near 87 degrees. Get the full forecast here.
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Today in history
Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.
- On this day in 1903, Ford Motor Co. sold its first car via an order to a Chicago dentist, who requested a Model A.
- In 1916: Pacific Aero Products was founded and incorporated in Seattle by William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt. The company was later renamed Boeing, eventually becoming one of the largest multinational corporations in the aerospace and defense field.
- In 1942: Nazi Germany began deporting Jews from the Netherlands to concentration camps and killing centers in Germany and Poland. Over 100,000 people were sent to their deaths.
- In 1965: The Marina 4, reaching its closest point to Mars, took the first pictures of the surface of the red planet.
- In 1978: The “Longest Walk” finally reached Washington, D.C., ending a five-month-long pilgrimage initiated by 24 Indigenous people walking from California to the nation’s capital to bring attention to difficulties their people face and to protest legislations introduced by Congress that would violate and impact their way of life. Thousands joined the group when they reached D.C.
- In 1997: Italian fashion mogul Gianni Versace was murdered on the front steps of his Miami Beach mansion by Andrew Cunanan, who killed at least five people as he traveled from Minnesota to Florida.
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