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Two small words but yet our definition there is a definitive difference between these two words. The root of the two words for the most part have the same meaning, however when we do something we are in the present state of doing an action.
When we have come to a completion point of a task, the task is done or finished.
 Just prior to Christ’s last breath on the cross, he spoke his three last words prior to his death: So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. (John 19:30).

Donald Trump was the winner in Kentucky and Grant County in the first-ever Republican presidential caucus March 5.

Statewide, Trump garnered 36 percent of the votes compared to 32 percent for Ted Cruz.
Marco Rubio (16 percent) and John Kasich (14 percent) were in third and fourth place, respectively.

Trump carried 78 counties, including Grant, while Cruz received the most votes in 42 counties.
In Grant County, there were 1,282 Republicans who voted at Williamstown High School in the caucus.

Family members of victims Larry Whiteker and Nicole Hiles fought through tears March 3 as they gave an emotional plea during the sentencing of murderer Shaun Hiles.
Hiles was convicted in January of the July 28, 2014 shooting deaths of his estranged wife, Nicole Hiles, and her friend, Larry Whiteker, at Vallandingham and Mulligan roads in Dry Ridge.
During the trial, Commonwealth Attorney Jim Crawford painted Hiles as an enraged husband, upset over a pending divorce, who had been stalking his wife and Whiteker.