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More than 400 nabbed during drunk driving enforcement effort

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Michigan says police arrested 433 people for drunken driving during a three-week statewide crackdown. 

The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning announced results Tuesday from the enforcement effort that ran March 13 through April 8.  It says officers from 155 agencies participated and made 12,296 traffic stops.

The period included the NCAA basketball tournament, high school and college spring break periods and St. Patrick's Day.

Michigan law defines drunken driving as having at least 0.08 percent alcohol in the blood. The state says 72 of those arrested were considered "super drunk" under a law that targets drivers who have at least a 0.17 percent blood alcohol reading.

Four-hundred-five people were arrested in last year's crackdown.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.