When director Richard Wilson asked playwright Richard Bean to write a play about the game of snooker—think billiards, but with a much larger table and no stripes versus solids—Bean didn’t think it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Bean has been forced out as superintendent of the troubled juvenile detention center that bears his name. Bean's departure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The superintendent of Knox County’s juvenile detention center has announced he will be retiring this ...

Richard J. Bean, 67, died at his home on Sunday, May 23, 2021 after a courageous battel with cancer. Richard was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 11, 1953, and is the son of the late Franklin ...

Richard Bean, the 85-year-old former superintendent of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center, wants $5 million from Knox County taxpayers, Mayor Glenn Jacobs and Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — For the first time since he retired, Richard Bean is reacting to being pushed out of the job he held for 50 years at the juvenile detention center bearing his name. "When the mayor ...

The Knox County Commission will vote this week on a plan to temporarily move the detention center under the oversight of KCSO and a new board.