(North Scituate, RI) -- A Rhode Island State Police dog is receiving a national honor. The department says Canine Unit member Ruby has been selected as the Search and Rescue Dog of the year and is a finalist for the 2018 American Humane Hero Dog Award, to be named in September. Ruby and her handler, Trooper Daniel O'Neill, were nominated based on a search-and-rescue case last fall, when they found a young man alive but barely conscious in the woods in Glocester.