Obviously. How about keep it reeeeeeal simple: Just add the town and state at the beginning of the first sentence. No big deal and it provides instant information to readers of this international forum who might not be familiar with the LOCALe. If I post a story about graffitti on Main St. it is only polite to state which city and state even it if is mentioned further down in the article.
For example:
Oakland, CA Tanker truck explosion caused part of the upperdeck of the maze approaching the Bay Bridge to collapse....
For example:Sort of like THIS:Oakland, CA
California highway interchange collapses after tanker catches fire
OAKLAND, Calif. A section of highway has collapsed in Oakland, California, after a tractor trailer carrying 86-hundred gallons of gasoline caught fire.It happened early this morning at an interchange connecting interstate highways to the busy Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge.
Authorities say the tanker ignited after crashing into a pylon on an interchange connecting Interstate 80 to I-880. The fire led to the collapse of a second interchange above it.
The driver of the truck suffered second-degree burns. The California Highway Patrol says he walked away from the crash and hailed a cab, which took him to the hospital.
The Bay Bridge's heavily traveled double decks run about two miles across the San Francisco Bay.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
That's called a dateline. A dateline reflects where the reporter is, not where the story is -- and if the story isn't based on on-the-scene news gathering, many news outlets don't use datelines at all. Almost no local news outlets use the state in datelines in the local area.
If this story was written by someone in a newsroom in San Francisco, based on phone interviews, wire reports, listening to the police scanner and so on, an Oakland dateline would, in effect, be a lie.