SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Jose Mercury News has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a same-sex harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a man who said he endured sexual comments and touching from a mailroom supervisor, officials said today. Mark Newton, 45, of Brentwood, who is married with children, said a former male supervisor harassed him from October 2002 to June 2003, leading him to seek medical treatment for emotional distress. "These practices include subjecting Mr. Newton to harassment on the basis of his sex, male, which created an offensive, abusive, intimidating...