Rep. Jim Lucas

House Speaker Todd Huston (R-Fishers) said Rep. Jim Lucas (R-Seymour) should never have flashed his holstered handgun during a conversation with students at the Statehouse.

A judge cut short the probation for GOP state Rep. Jim Lucas who pleaded guilty to drunken driving charges after police say he crashed his pickup truck through an interstate highway guardrail and drove away.

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston said he's disappointed in the actions of Rep. Jim Lucas, who pleaded guilty Monday to driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a crash.

An Indiana state lawmaker’s pickup truck veered down a hill, through an interstate guardrail and across traffic lanes in a crash that led to his arrest last week on suspicion of drunken driving, according to a police report

Rep. Jim Lucas (R-Seymour) was booked into a southern Indiana county jail early Wednesday morning for operating while intoxicated.