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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police in Central Texas have shot and killed a man who aimed a rifle at officers answering a call about him threatening suicide.

Austin police Chief Art Acevedo says four officers who opened fire Tuesday night have been placed on administrative leave with pay.

Police received a report of a man threatening to kill himself and his roommate. Investigators say the suspect had a rifle and told police to leave. Authorities say the suspect appeared to be preparing to open fire when he pointed the rifle at police — who then shot him.

No officers were hurt. The name of the man who died wasn't immediately released.

Police are also investigating whether reports of shots fired early Tuesday in the same Austin neighborhood were linked to the suspect.

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston firefighters have discovered the body of a man in a burned house and police are trying to determine what led to the death.

The Houston Fire Department says the body was located early Wednesday. Homicide investigators were called to the scene after the fire was extinguished.

The name of the man and further details on the case weren't immediately released.

Arson investigators are trying to determine what started the fire.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A North Texas police officer responding to a robbery call at a fast-food restaurant has been shot and another person wounded.

Fort Worth police did not immediately provide further details on the gunfire around dawn Wednesday.

Matt Zavadsky with MedStar Emergency Medical Services says the officer was in stable condition when transported to a Fort Worth hospital. Zavadsky says the other person who was shot is in critical condition and also has been transported to a hospital.

Names of the officer and the other wounded person weren't immediately released. Police have not said who shot the officer and whether the wounded person is the suspect. Police remained at the restaurant and a nearby residential area shortly after the shootings.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A man who faked being the son of a South Texas judge to con money from people with legal troubles has been sentenced to two years in state jail.

Another judge in San Antonio on Tuesday sentenced 37-year-old Mark David Leal.

Leal in March pleaded no contest to theft of $3,500 from a man facing drug possession and drunken driving charges.

Prosecutors say Leal falsely claimed his mother was Judge Juanita Vasquez-Gardner and that she would delete the charges from a court computer.

The scam surfaced in 2011 when the charges weren't dropped and the duped man mailed a threatening letter to the unknowing judge. The swindled man, who pleaded guilty to the drug charge and sending the threat, cooperated in the investigation.

Vasquez-Gardner failed in her 2012 re-election bid.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A key Senate panel has approved proposed reforms to the state's troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency.

The Health and Human Services Committee on Monday passed a bill that would install stricter oversight than former rules at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

Dorothy Gibbons, whose Houston-based organization The Rose has received $3.6 million in CPRIT grants, told lawmakers the embattled agency is too valuable to lose.

She said money from CPRIT has so far allowed more than 4,300 mammogram screenings statewide.

The bill now goes to the full Senate.