Also the Chesapeake Bay with it's own Bay Bridge....
So do your local papers always call it the Bay Bridge over Chesepeake Bay in Maryland? Of course not. It is a LOCAL story. This one quickly went national due to the internet and FR. Had it been written for a national audience, more details would have been given.
Why are people so fussed up about info that is given in the first 35 words of the story? Do we need to tell people to read the story, not just the first sentence?