Consumer Technology Reporter Jamey Tucker started providing his daily “What the Tech” stories to Action 8 News in 2019. He can be seen on Action 8 News Rising as well as Action 8 News at 5:00 and 5:30PM.
Jamey previously worked as a reporter for WKRN in Nashville, Tennessee. He was also an anchor and reporter for WREG in Memphis, Tennessee, and WHNT in Huntsville.
Jamey has been honored by the Associated Press in Alabama as Best Reporter and Best Feature reporter for his work as a religion reporter. His love for technology reporting grew while working in Nashville. Jamey now focuses entirely on technology reporting and enjoys finding new apps and gadgets to make life easier, safer and a little more fun.
Jamey and his wife have three children and are the proud owners of a hairless cat.
You can follow Jamey and submit story ideas and questions on X at @jameytucker.
In its 33rd year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, today announced Zipporah Broughton of Lee High School as its 2017-18 Gatorade Alabama Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Broughton is the first Gatorade Alabama Girls Basketball Player of…
The thinking is still in line with what we have been saying: A surface low is over the Oklahoma Panhandle. It will move eastward to southern Kentucky by this evening. A…
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Collin Sexton scored 21 of his team-high 24 points after halftime to lead Alabama to an 86-83 victory over Virginia Tech on Thursday night for the Crimson Tide's first NCAA Tournament win in a dozen years. John Petty kept ninth-seeded…
Attorney General Steve Marshall today announced the winners of the 2017 Alabama Safe Schools Initiative Awards of Excellence. Earlier this week, a panel of independent judges met at the Attorney General’s Office to review submissions from 47 schools throughout Alabama,…
Our Senior Political Reporter, Tim Lennox, sat down for a Face to Face with 2018 Gubernatorial candidate, Bill Hightower, to talk about the upcoming primary election in June.
The Montgomery Police Department is conducting a homicide investigation following the early morning stabbing death of George Tucker, 41, of Montgomery. MPD and Fire Medics responded to the 2600 block of Endicott Drive shortly after midnight in reference to a…
RAIN/STORMS RETURN: Clouds will increase today, and we will mention the risk of a shower by mid to late afternoon, but most of the day will be dry and mild with…
The 61st annual SLE Rodeo is in full swing. Thursday night was the first night at Garrett Coliseum. Fans of all ages got to enjoy watching bare back bucking broncos, steer wrestling…
Alabama has executed a man who killed his employer at a traveling carnival decades ago and later dropped appeals and asked for the death sentence to be carried out. Authorities say 50-year-old Michael Wayne Eggers was pronounced dead at 7:29…
